Tag: Scotland
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Greenlandic People and Goddesses
I tell stories for a living, not just folk stories, historical ones too. I use historical objects to help me to tell these stories and travel all over Scotland with the Travelling Museum, telling the stories related to objects and traditions of Scotland. In December the Travelling Museum received a wonderful donation: an article with […]
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Sympathy for the Witch
Last Spring a huge storm tore through our local forests and knocked thousands of trees to the ground. It was devastating and since then, for nearly a year now, we’ve been working to clear these fallen trees and turn them into firewood for our village. Last weekend a friend of ours came over to help […]
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The Legend of the Lost Island of Hy-Brasil
“There is now living, Morogh O’Ley, who immagins he was himself personally on O’Brasil for two days, and saw out of it the iles of Aran, Golamhead, Irrosbeghill, and other places of the west continent he was acquainted with.” Roderick O’ Flaherty, A Chorographical Description of West or H-Iar Connaught, 1872 Here Be Monsters… I […]
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You Are The River
“We’re all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.” Liam Callanan Yesterday I sat outside and closed my hand around a hot cup of coffee. The smell of the wet mossy ground and mouldering leaves brought me back to being a child, exploring the woods near Inverness. Attempts to find non-poisonous, […]
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Folklore and Identity
“A story is telt eye tae eye, mind tae mind, heart to heart.” Scottish proverb I grew up in rural Perthshire hearing a wealth of legends and stories, told by traditional storytellers. Their stories related to landmarks; standing stones; lochs; or rivers. Just like those landmarks the stories were every bit a part of the […]