Highland Dress of the Seventeenth Century On a trip to Italy many years ago, a half dozen Canadian scouts wore kilts. They were amazed at…
Martin Martin was a gentleman from the Isle of Skye who wrote a book called The Description of the Western Isles of Scotland about 1695. He was…
“You will hide among the herders of Clan Donald and, if you are indeed lucky, you may reach Edinburgh to warn of treachery,” said the Wise Woman. “I…
“You will become a banshee,” said the Wise Woman. “Your people need your powers.” Shona Campbell, the daughter of a Scottish chief, is told she…
What is a Scottish Highlander? You would assume that someone called a Scottish Highlander lives in mountainous or at least hilly terrain of Scotland. Right!…
The fairies can be useful and kind to human beings. They bring food when a family is poor, build houses or barns overnight, and reward…
The fairy folk, sometimes called am fuath in Scotland, could be kind to people, but they could steal and maim and even kill. So how did Highlanders…
Broadly speaking, a fairy is a being of human form with magical powers, a being who loves to intervene in human affairs. They are good,…
Gaelic Scotland and Ireland are the lands of my heritage, and the stories I tell concern those countries. I love to peruse books of Celtic…
The image gives a wonderful idea of what a typical castle might look like in the 17th century. The artist is Stiùbhart Jackson who comes…
