The Scottish Highlands are a place of ancient history, stunning natural beauty, and magic. Among the older generations, some ...

This beast was not a man, not a lesser faerie […] beautiful, lethal, and merciless.” And now, she’s trapped with him. John Duncan, The Riders of the Sidhe, 1911, a depiction of Celtic fairies.

Fairies, sprites and elves Scottish fairies dance capriciously through many Scottish folk tales. Originally thought to be evil – take care not to fall asleep in a fairy circle, especially after ...

(You can see unicorns in this magical place.) “Celtic nations have a rich heritage of storytelling,” says Stormonth. “Take fairies—they’ve been used for centuries as a way of explaining ...

Fairies have been generally portrayed as human-like in appearance with magical powers, allowing them to alter their size from unusually small to human-sized. In Orkney, Scotland, fairies were ...

This Easter weekend, why not escape into a land where magic lives in the trees, and whimsical creatures await just around the corner? Nestled near the banks of Loch Lomond, the Faerie Trail ...

Diane Purkiss’s history of fairies, includes a Scottish Highland legend which warns that you must bring water into the house at night, so the fairies don’t quench their thirst with your blood.

The earliest faeries Much of the lore surrounding faeries seems to have come from European countries with Celtic beliefs, such as England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany and Nordic countries like ...