Archive for category: Tales

The Tower of Hercules, Torre de Hercules, is the oldest surviving lighthouse in the world. Up until the twentieth...

Are you a Pharologist ? I wasn’t – until I started to research famous lighthouses of the world. Here...

There are many myths, legends & songs, but did King Arthur really exist ? Myths:-  tales invented by people...

There are many myths, legends & songs, but did Robin Hood really exist ? Myths:- tales invented by people...

It is not known if the fairies ever lived here. There are no legends to support the possibility. But...

Finnich Glen is about a 100 ft. gorge and takes you deep into the sinister lost under-world of devils and...

The Rinns of Galloway is a stretch of land known as a, ‘hammer-head’ peninsular. Its Gaelic name is, “Na...

From the time King James II fled, in 1688, to France, in exile, several ‘Jacobite Risings’ arose in Scotland....

A ‘Bree’ is a substance which has been boiled e.g. broth or soup. Once upon a time, a woman...

“Faunes, or Brownies, if ye will, Or Satyres come from Atlas Hill.” A satyre is a man with the...