The Dragon’s Hole: Beltane Revelries and Saintly Slayings
The Dragon’s Hole was said to be the den of a deadly dragon during the 6th Century. The beast...
Read MoreApr 30, 2022 | Beltane, Bride, Cailleach, Dragons, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Myths and Legends, Protestant Reformation
The Dragon’s Hole was said to be the den of a deadly dragon during the 6th Century. The beast...
Read MoreJun 18, 2020 | Anglo-Saxons, Beltane, Britons, Dal Riatan Scots or Gaels, Dragons, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Imbolc, Myths and Legends, Nine Maidens, Picts
The 18th of June is the Feast Day of the Nine Maidens in Scotland. But who were these women? Did...
Read MoreMar 29, 2020 | Cailleach, Cryptozoology, Culloden, Curses, Dragons, Ghost and Spirits, Haunted, Haunted Castle, Highland Clearances, Kelpie, Myths and Legends, Scottish Highlands, Seer, Sith (fairies), Skye, The Second Sight, Waterhorse, Witch Hunts and Trials
Perhaps nowhere in the world has as many tales of hauntings as Scotland’s Haunted Highlands....
Read MoreDec 27, 2018 | Dragons, Myths and Legends, Orkney, Vikings
Does Orkney’s Tale of the Stoorworm have its origins in Viking Folklore? You may never have heard...
Read MoreFeb 17, 2018 | Bride, Cailleach, Cryptozoology, Dragons, Haunted, Mythical creatures, Myths and Legends, Nine Maidens, Sith (fairies), Waterhorse
From before the dawn of history, the early ancestors of the people we now know as the Scots, built...
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