Download or read book Jack and the Devil's Purse written by Duncan Williamson and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 best-selling May the Devil Walk Behind Ye!, originally published by Canongate.