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 »

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 »

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 »

“She kept a stir in tower and trench,
That brawling, boisterous Scottish wench,
Came I early, came I late
I found Agnes at the gate.” Seguir leyendo »

Mountains divide us, and a waste of seas; yet
Still the blood is strong; the heart is Highland
And we in dreams behold the Hebrides”
Canadian Boat Song, circa 1829

At the northwest edge of Europe the chain of the Outer Hebrides runs for 150 miles. Seguir leyendo »

“No person, except those gifted with second sight, could see the Brownies; but from the privileged few, principally old women, who were thus enabled to now and then catch a glimpse of their goblin guests, correct information regarding their size and color is said to have been gained.” Sir Walter Scott Seguir leyendo »

Is there a fabulous beastie in Loch Ness? Seguir leyendo »

Selkies are not to be confused with kelpies, phookas, the each uisge, water dragons or water horses of any breed. You must understand that Selkies are the Seal People. Seguir leyendo »