Shellycoat: The Rattling River Bogle of Scottish Folklore
Before you see him, you hear him. A rattling, clattering sound from somewhere along the riverbank, or out in the […]
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Bodach: The Old Man Who Comes in the Night
He does not knock. He does not scratch at the window or rattle the door or announce himself in any
Blue Men of the Minch: The Storm Kelpies Who Challenge Sailors to Their Doom
The stretch of water between the Outer Hebrides and the Scottish mainland is not a sea that forgives mistakes. The
Selkies: The Seal People of Orkney and the Sorrow They Left Behind
There is a particular kind of grief that runs through Selkie stories. Not the sharp, sudden grief of violence or
Finfolk: Orkney’s Dark Shapeshifters of the Sea
The mermaids of popular imagination are gentle things. Beautiful, curious, tragic perhaps, but essentially passive. They sit on rocks and
Sawney Bean: Scotland’s Cannibal Clan
There is a cave on the Ayrshire coast, cut into the rock by centuries of tide and wind, that runs
Sluagh: The Unforgiven Dead Who Ride the Night Wind
Lock the west-facing windows. That was the instruction, passed down through generations of Scottish Gaelic households with the quiet seriousness
Black Annis: The Blue-Faced Hag Who Hunted the Children of England
There is a cave in the Dane Hills on the western edge of Leicester that locals once refused to approach
The Black Wood of Rannoch: Ancient Spirits and Something That Followed Us Through the Trees
There are forests, and then there are the old forests. The ones that were ancient when the first human settlements
Glen Lyon: Vampiric Fae, Haunted Castles and Something in the Dark
There are valleys in Scotland that feel wrong in a way you cannot quite articulate. Not threatening exactly, not hostile,