Jack and the Devil's Purse

A collection of Scottish Traveller folk tales about the Devil from "Scotland's greatest modern-day storyteller" (The Guardian (UK)).

Devil stories are always fascinating, entertaining, and disturbing. These twenty tales, re-told by one of Scotland's master storytellers, are a fascinating insight into Traveller beliefs about evil, temptation, and suffering in which the Devil exists not to punish, but to outwit you in a contest of intelligence and knowledge.


This collection is an expanded edition of Duncan Williamson's bestselling May the Devil Walk Behind Ye!, originally published by Canongate.

Praise for Jack and the Devil's Purse
"An important part of our heritage to be treasured and shared." —Scottish Home and Country (UK)
"Duncan is a first-class storyteller." —Northern Times (UK)
"Superbly handled, as you would expect from this acknowledged master of storytelling." —The Scots Magazine (UK)