Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  'Water-Horse' by Andrew Paciorek This tale about a water-horse is taken from ‘Skye: The Island and its Legends’ by Otta F. Swire ...

  I have made a discovery, or at least a possible discovery. Maybe others have made it before, but it is new to me: in 1891 at the age o...

    ‘Oh Tam Lin – If I had known of this night’s deed I would have torn out your two grey eyes And put back in two eyes of tree.’ So ...

    This wintry and very eerie ghost story is by the 19th century Norwegian writer Jonas Lie. A contemporary of Henrik Ibsen, born 1833 at...