Tag: Burghead

Are the Scots a Nation of Pyromaniacs? Midwinter Fire Festivals in Scotland

Jan 10, 2026 | Christmas and Yule, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Fire Festivals, Winter Solstice

I am convinced that the Scots are a nation of pyromaniacs. I used to work in a laboratory...

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The Picts: The Mystery, the Myth and the Monuments

Dec 18, 2025 | Burghead, Christianity, Dal Riatan Scots or Gaels, Forteviot, Kenneth MacAlpin, Nigg, Peoples, Picts, Portmahomack, Pre-Christian Belief, Rhynie, Rosemarkie, Saint Columba, Scone, Shandwick, Tap o' Noth, Vikings, Well Worship

My first encounter with the Picts came, as a child, when I went to see Sueno’s Stone on the...

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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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