House gnomes have always watched and protected homes in Scandinavia, and Elves have guarded the high passes, assisting straying house animals (who cannot survive alone) and finding lost children. Seguir leyendo »

Beltane is one of the most important festivals of the pagan year traditionally marking the arrival of summer in ancient times.With its counterpart Samhain, Beltane divides the year into its two primary seasons, Winter the Dark and Summer the Light. Seguir leyendo »

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 … Seguir leyendo »

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. Seguir leyendo »

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. Seguir leyendo »

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. Seguir leyendo »

My great grandmother warned me about fairies. Some are kind, and beautiful, she said, while others are hostile to mortals. She would leave out a saucer of milk at night for the Brownie, but nothing more, in case he took offense. Seguir leyendo »

A changeling is the offspring of a fairy, left secretly in exchange for a human child. The habit is widespread, children are stolen away from Japan to Scandinavia, and all across the British Isles. It’s especially rife in Ireland. Seguir leyendo »