Top Tales of Faery
Fairy folk are not always kind and gracious to mortals, they are often capricious, willful and vengeful, quick to anger and easily insulted over trifles. Make sure you know what you’re doing when it comes to fairies …
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Fairy Flag of Clan MacLeod
Folklore is filled with tales of daemon lovers and the Isle of Skye is famous for just such a legend. It is said that the Chief of Clan Macleod entered a sithean, a faery hill, where he met and fell in love with a fairy princess.
The Good Brownie
Brownies are originally from Scotland and the Outer Isles. Although there is much anecdotal evidence that has them following emigrants to Canada and Australia, they are not found elsewhere, and there is uncertainty about the ultimate survival of Brownies in these troubled times.
Thomas the Rhymer
The Scots say they have invented just about everything in the modern world. Anything worthwhile, they claim. Perhaps those canny engineers and early tinkerers had a touch of Thomas the Rhymer in them, and they could get a little glimpse of the future. For Thomas is Scotland ‘s answer to Nostradamus.
Far Darrig and the Tinker
Miss Letitia MacLintock published some delightful folk-lore contributions for various Irish periodicals, such as The Dublin University Magazine, 1878, and English periodicals, like Belgavia. This is a tale of the Red Man, the Far Darrig.
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