A rather intriguing as well as an important tradition noted down by Alexander Carmichael probably came by way of a Uist reciter. This short ...

Once a widespread European custom was to form a corn dolly or maiden out of the last sheaf at harvest time. Traditions of such customs were ...

As today – or rather tonight – many Scots, both at home and abroad, will celebrate Burns Night, it would not be entirely inappropriate to ...

Now and again when the opportunity arose Alexander Carmichael would make periodic visits to his native island. Such visits would have allowe...

Following on from the previous blog, the rest of the chapter offers not only a translation of the Gaelic song but also some musings about th...

As has been mentioned before in this blog Nether-Lochaber, or the Rev. Alexander Stewart (1829–1901) and Alexander Carmichael were old frien...

Historical legends were (and still are to some extent) a common enough type of story to met with in the Highlands and Islands. Some tradi...