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A small tribute to my eternal inspiration Robert E. Howard, and to an auld   freen , who shared his birthday. I am glad to have met and tal...

"The Ride o' Falume" Screivit by Rabert E. Howard  

My heart’s in the Highlands, twa strings on my bow To hunt the fierce haggis, man’s awfu’est foe. And weel may my bairn ha’ a tear ...

I have given these specimens of a particular class of tales which are common enough, as they came to me, because they seem to be fair ...

The Blue Men are found only in the Minch, and chiefly in the strait which lies between the Island of Lewis and the Shant Isles (the c...

The Burach Bhadi , also known as the Wizard's Shackle, lives in the Western isles of Scotland. It is an eel or leech with nine squint...

(With profuse apologies to Edwin Landseer ) In Gaelic Scotland, where deer were and continue to be prevalent, there are indications of ...

Clanronald told us, as an instance of Highland credulity, that a set of his kinsmen - Borradale and others - believing that the fabulo...

When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord An' float the jinglin icy boord Then, water-kelpies haunt the foord By your direction An...

A serpent, whenever encountered, ought to be killed. Otherwise, the encounter will prove an omen of evil. The head should be completely ...

Wouldn't be long until vampires started baring their fangs in BeastieScotInktoberFest. There are a number of bloodsucking horrors in...

... A "FACHAN" is thus described: - "Ugly was the make of the Fachin; there was one hand out of the ridge of his chest,...

Gigelorum. - The Giolcam-daoram , or Gigelorum , is the smallest of all animals. It makes its nest in the mite's ear and that is all...

Books dealing on Scottish history were easier for me to obtain than those dealing with Irish history, so in my childhood I knew infinite...

Let me speak first of all about her prayerfulness. In church no one was so silent and composed as she, no one so wrapt in prayer. Whilst ...

The principal of these were Constantine the Bald, son of King Culen, and Gryme, son of Kenneth, son of King Duff; and, plotting unceasin...

Earl Sigurd made himself a mighty chief;  he joined his fellowship with Thorstein the red, son of Olaf the white and Aud the deep-minded,...

While the Roman Invasion left an indelible mark on these isles, it was far from the last great assault from overseas: four centuries afte...

Good the day when Óengus took Alba, hilly Alba with its strong chiefs; he brought battle to palisaded towns, with feet, with hands,...

WHAT we are about to relate concerning the plague, which in our own time twice visited the greater part of the world, deserves, I think...