Highland Folk Tales

The Highlands of Scotland are steeped in traditional stories. Even in today’s world of the internet and supermarkets, ancient legends—dating back to the times of the Gaels, Picts, and Vikings—are still told around the fireside.

These are tales of the daoine sìth—the fairy people—and their homes in the green hills; of great and bloody battles; of encounters with the last wolves in Britain; of lonely ghosts; and of supernatural beings such as the selkie, the mermaid, and the Fuath, Scotland’s...