Category: Picts

Was Saint Kessog Scotland’s Original Patron Saint?

Mar 10, 2021 | Dal Riatan Scots or Gaels, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Martyrs, Picts, Saint Andrew, Saint Columba

Saint Kessog (also known as MacKessog) is an obscure figure in Scottish history who appears out of...

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Burghead: Fire, Water, Wind and a whole load of Bull!

Feb 20, 2021 | Fire Festivals, Iron Age, Moray, Picts, Ritual Sacrifice, The Gruesome and Macabre, Vikings

The sleepy coastal town of Burghead becomes the focus of an ancient pagan ritual on the 11th...

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St Andrews Cathedral: Skeletons, Skulls and Sarcophagi

Nov 30, 2020 | Cardinal David Beaton, Dal Riatan Scots or Gaels, Ghost and Spirits, Graveyards, Cemeteries and Kirkyards, John Knox, Picts, Protestant Reformation, Robert the Bruce, Saint Andrew, Saint Columba, Scottish Wars of Independence, St Andrews

St Andrews Cathedral is the place to visit if you are interested in stones, bones, and ghostly...

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The Feast of the Nine Maidens: A Christian Feast or a Pagan Memory

Jun 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...

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Saint Columba: The Man, the Myth, the Legend

Jun 9, 2020 | Brechbennach (Relics of Saint Columba), Druids, Iona, Picts, Saint Columba

The Feast Day of Saint Columba is celebrated on the 9th of June, on the anniversary of his death....

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The Battle of Dún Nechtain: The Beginninig of the Scottish Nation

May 20, 2020 | Anglo-Saxons, Britons, Dal Riatan Scots or Gaels, Dun Nechtain, Gododdin, Peoples, Picts, Premonition, The Second Sight, Wars and Battles

As the Battle of Dún Nechtain was taking place, a strange incident occurred in Carlisle....

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