The Ghosts of Barlinnie: The Victorian Woman With the Lantern and the Prison That Kept Its Dead
There is a particular quality of darkness that accumulates in places where the state has killed people on a schedule. […]
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St Mungo: The Founding Legend of Glasgow and the Four Miracles on the Coat of Arms
Look at Glasgow’s coat of arms long enough and you start to notice that it is telling a story. A
Jenny wi’ the Iron Teeth: Glasgow’s Original Child-Stealing Monster
Glasgow has a particular talent for producing bogeymen. Not the vague, shapeless kind that could belong to anywhere, but specific,
Jenny Greenteeth: The River Hag Who Hides Beneath the Duckweed
There is a particular kind of stillness that gathers on the surface of a pond in late summer, when duckweed
Wee Jeanie and the Toe: Scotland’s Campfire Tale That Won’t Stay Buried
There are ghost stories that come with a castle attached, a named historical victim, a date carved into a stone
Brollachan: The Shapeless Child That Knows Only Two Words
Of all the creatures that belong to the Fuath family, the broad and consistently dark category of malevolent water spirit
The Fachan: The Most Grotesquely Wrong Creature in Scottish Folklore
There is a particular quality of wrongness that some monsters achieve through sheer scale, and others achieve through what they
Tarbh Uisge: The Water Bull That Doesn’t Want to Kill You
Scotland’s water creature tradition, as anyone who has explored the Fuath family on this site will already understand, runs overwhelmingly
Maggie Wall: The Witch Monument to a Woman Who May Never Have Existed
On a quiet stretch of road between the village of Dunning and the town of Auchterarder in Perthshire, a stone
The Green Lady of Crathes Castle: The Ghost the Skeleton Proved Real
There is a particular category of Scottish ghost story that occupies an uncomfortable space between folklore and forensics, where the