Ancient Sites / Featured Sites / Folklore / Folktales / Scottish Folktales / Stone Circles
by Ian · Published September 14, 2008 · Last modified August 29, 2019
Situated near the village of Calanais, Isle of Lewis on a ridge of land above Loch Roag, Callanais is one of the more remote stone circles in the British Isles. The circle consists of a central stone just under five metres in height, surrounded by a circle of thirteen stones.
Folklore / Folktales / Scottish Folktales
by Ian · Published September 14, 2008 · Last modified October 28, 2018
Folklore tells of a tribe of supernatural sea creatures called the Blue Men of the Minch, who used to inhabit the stretch of water known as the Minch, between Lewis, the Shiant Islands and Long Island.
Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Scottish Fairies / Scottish Folktales
by Ian · Published September 12, 2008 · Last modified December 17, 2018
The story of the Fairy boy of Leith is relatively unknown today, and doesn’t appear to have been recently recounted since its last appearance in the 1970s Reader’s Digest compendium, Folklore, Myths a
Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Mermaids / Scottish Folktales
by Ian · Published August 12, 2008 · Last modified November 3, 2018
There is a story connected to Loch Druich and three brothers who happened across a troupe of merfolk. One night the brothers were by the loch side when they saw a group of seals come up onto the beach and shred their furry skins. Beneath the skins were naked people, who danced together on the shore.
In James Mackinlay’s ‘Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs’ (1893) he states ‘If anyone refuses to believe in the existence of water-horses, let him go to the parish of Fearn, in Forfarshire, and there, near the ruined castle of Vayne, he will see on a sandstone rock the print of a
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