Scotland has always told stories about itself, and the best of them are still tied to places you can visit. There's the selkie who came ashore on an island beach, the kelpie waiting at a Highland ford, the fairy hill above a quiet glen and the castle ghost who never quite left. Here are the folk tales we've gathered from across the country, each one told in full and set in the spot where it belongs, alongside everything we've written about myths, legends and the old ways. Read one before you go, and a still loch or a ring of standing stones will never look quite the same again.
FolkloreThe Dream Makers of SkyeFolkloreThe Legendary Brahan SeerFolkloreLady Balconie And The Black Rock GorgeFolkloreHallowe’en? It started here in ScotlandFolkloreTayside's lost villageFolkloreThe Lost Cows Of PabbayFolkloreSecret Scuttling In Scapa FlowFolkloreThe Burning of the ClavieFolkloreThe Hard Life Of A Timber FloaterFolkloreDunphail Castle’s Headless GhostsFolkloreThe Pagans of ScoughallFolkloreGhostly Hound of Barnbougle CastleFolkloreGambling With Robert the BruceFolkloreThe Battle of FalkirkFolkloreThe Accidental Witch of DalkeithFolkloreThe Glendale RiotsFolkloreThe Fairies of SkyeFolkloreThe Mourning KelpieFolkloreThe Wise Laird of CullodenFolkloreAlexander Henry RhindFolkloreThe Selkie of St TrothansFolklorePolitical Propaganda At CromdaleFolkloreBorder balladsFolkloreBattle of Loudon Hill
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