Silhouette in Doorway A name by now very familiar to this blog is John Ewen (Iain Eòghann) MacRury who hailed from Torlum, Benbecu...

Evil Eye / Droch-Shùil Another example of the use of a thread cure used as a charm to avert the evil eye, or droch-shùil , was collect...

Red Thread One of the most persistent superstitious beliefs to have survived until relatively late in the Western Isles (as well as on...