A number of fairy traditions talk of the fairies kidnapping infants – these are the changeling stories that are fairly common – or of the fa...

Carmichael, of course, was not the only collector to contribute to the pages of The Highlander , for his friend and sometime mentor, John Fr...

As with other collectors of oral traditions as well as scholars, Alexander Carmichael occasionally contributed pieces to The Highlander new...

In a fieldwork notebook in which the earliest date of 1871 appears, Alexander Carmichael noted down quite a few items about courting and how...

During the past few weeks the Carmichael Watson Project has begun to compile capsule biographies of the people recorded by Alexander Carmich...

The mythological nature of vampires is a common theme throughout world folklore and, of course, Gaelic tradition is not an exception to this...

The following list of pet names for very young children appears in a parcel  of various manuscript and typed material rejected as unsuitable...