Brownies can be both tricky and highly moral individuals, as this tale relates.

Not all of the "wee folk" are fairies. Here is a story about the Scottish Brownie, sometimes referred to as a "house elf".

This short story provides an insight into how such tales could spread throughout the land with very little variation.

This is a fairy story from the Island of Lunna in Shetland. It provides a moral for what happens when one friend betrays another.

In these times it was not uncommon for the the fairies to abduct a member of the family and replace him or her with a "freeloader", who would consume the family's resources and give nothing in return.

This is the story of Alexander Jones and looks deeply into a great problem. Can you answer the riddle before the story ends?

A classic story which appears in many cultures throughout the world. No fairy-godmother in the Scottish version however.