Tag: Nine Maidens

Edinburgh Castle: A Timeline of Horror, Hauntings and Happenings

Oct 30, 2021 | Betrayals and Treachery, Covenanters, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Edward I King of England, Ghost and Spirits, Haunted Castle, Iron Age, Nine Maidens, Robert the Bruce, Scottish Wars of Independence, Witch Hunts and Trials, Witches

Edinburgh Castle looms over Scotland’s capital city, its outer walls seeming to merge with the...

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The Bodach- Ancient God, Folk Myth or Malevolent Ghost?

Sep 21, 2021 | Bodach, Bride, Cailleach, Nine Maidens

Tigh nam Bodach is an ancient pagan shrine built to the Bodach and his wife, the Cailleach, in one...

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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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Halloween Origins: Samhain and the Cailleach

Oct 30, 2019 | Beltane, Cailleach, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Myths and Legends, Samhain and Halloween, Wheel of the Year

The origins of Halloween date back to an ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced...

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Scottish Myths and Legends

Feb 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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