After the rather straightforward texts about Morag, the monster of Loch Morar, from Alexander Carmichael’s papers which we published in our ...

For our festive blogs, we thought we’d give the red water charms a little rest and turn to quite another phenomenon altogether. Alexander Ca...

Over the past week a number of emails have arrived in the Carmichael Watson inbox with the rather alarming heading ‘urine charms’. The reaso...

As the Carmichael Watson Project moves into a new, Leverhulme Trust-funded phase, we’re starting to investigate Alexander Carmichael’s fasci...

It's been a busy few weeks for the team as Phase 4 fever takes holds. The objects which we are cataloguing and researching are held eith...

Oidhche Challainn or Hogmanay tended to be an occasion celebrated by groups of boys. Hallowe’en ( Oidhche Shamhna ) and All Saints’ Day ( L...

Alexander Carmichael’s Carmina Gadelica is one of the principal sources for information about the bean-tuiream : the mourning woman or profe...