MR. MACKENZIE gives his readers a comprehensive view of the main heads of Scottish folk-tradition and belief. He ranges from food taboos to giants, fairies and goddesses. One of the more remarkable of ...

David Kinloch is surely one of the most innovative poets ever to come out of Scotland. At times, he plays with archaic Scottish phrases, while spinning narratives about literary and art figures as ...

A curated travel route through Scotland links celebrated castles, historic battlefields, and Edinburgh’s famed underground vault tours into a connected journey. The itinerary merges cultural heritage ...

Off the shores of the Scottish mainland, more than 790 islands float among the sea — most of them uninhabited. Along the shores of these islands lie the origins of many Scottish folklore myths. In ...

Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the same archetypal category as Medusa, Circe and Morgan le Fay. However, Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth" ...

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It could have been the Loch Ness Monster — giant, mysterious and foreboding. Or, as some preferred, the Kelpie: a mystical shape-shifter often portrayed as a water horse in Scottish lore. But what ...

Distilled at the Ben Nevis distillery in 1972, the whisky spent 45 years in a sherry hogshead before the cask was bottled, yielding just 228 bottles, at 43%. This is one of the oldest Ben Nevis casks ...