Bestiary Archives – Spooky Scotland

Athach

Name pronunciation: AH-takh (stress on the first syllable; the second is guttural, like Scottish...

Alison Rough (c. 1480 — 3 September 1535) was one of Edinburgh’s most formidable...

Maggie Dickson is one of Edinburgh’s most enduring legends, a woman who survived her own...

St Kilda is an archipelago of wind‑lashed cliffs and empty cottages, remote off the west coast of...

Deacon Brodie is the name behind one of Edinburgh’s most infamous double lives. Today, his...

The Battle of Dunkeld was fought on 21 August 1689 in the narrow streets around Dunkeld Cathedral,...