🗓️🧵“Auld Halloween” would likely have been about this time. So, I thought I’d share some associated folklore about some “Carlin” - a Scots term meaning “old woman”- characters that you’d want to avoid meeting: theaddersden.wordpress.com/2024/10/29/%... 🍻🧈

#scotland #folklore 🗃️

📸 Photo from Pexel

🌌 Wee reshare: mare stanes & their use against nightmares & a surprising addition one woman had made to hers - human teeth! ⬇️

🐍 theaddersden.wordpress.com/2022/09/19/m... ⬅️

📸 Lovely photo very kindly provided by fabulous artist Jane Brideson - search for Wisdom of The Cailleach for more

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🔥Oidhche Shamhna Shona Dhuibh & Happy Hallaeen/Halloween if you’re celebrating 🔥

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In Scotland, the idea of “veils/barriers thinning” at this time of year is a later import from Victorian Spiritualism…Read more:
theaddersden.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/%...

#scotland #halloween #history #folklore

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Scottish origins of the word Halloween: theaddersden.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/%... 🗣️

📸 Photo: my own - Halloween has even reached Japan nowadays, with many themed goods such as this ghost-shaped chocolate bread on sale at this time of year 🌎

#scotland #scotslanguage #halloween #history

🎃 The Scottish Origins of Jack-o-Lanterns: theaddersden.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/%... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

📸 Photo taken by me – now I’ve moved to a place where I sadly can’t buy neeps, so I’ve got a wee ornament instead 😅

#scotland #halloween #jackolantern #folktradition #neeplantern #scotslanguage #history

📸 Fab pic posted by The Caithness Broch Project yesterday on FB: www.facebook.com/share/14Jhb5...

🤞🏻Hopefully they’ll join us over here soon 🦋

#scotland #caithness #internationalcatday #history #standingstone #archaeology #blackcat 🗃️🏺

🗓 Yesterday, 18th July, was the Feast Day of Glasgow’s St Thenue/Enoch so I thought I’d do a re-share 🐟

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#scotland #glasgow #Saints #miracles #folklore #saints #patronsaint #holywell #witchcraft #spirituality #christianity #WomensHistory

📸 Photo Credit: Pexel

📣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💬 Some brilliant news - the Scottish Languages Bill has been passed by the Scottish Parliament ☺️! This recognises both Scots & Scottish Gaelic as official languages in Scotland alongside English. Of course, being indigenous languages to Scotland…

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🗓️ #OTD “This five persons with(?) John Lindsay in Barloch and Margaret Fulton in Kilpatrick were burnt at Paisley the 10th June 1697.” - John Shaw of Bargarran, accuser Christian Shaw’s father, writes in his account of the 1697 Paisley Witch Trials…

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#scotland #history #witch #witchtrial

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Credit: Pictish Memes on FB (hopefully they’ll join us here at some point): www.facebook.com/share/p/18zT...?

#scotland #picts #history #archaeology #religion #stcolumba #prechristian #pagan #humour 🏺 🗃️

🔍 As Women’s History Month comes to a close I want to highlight a brilliant series of podcast episodes from Borders Bletherings: “Murder in Stow” (episodes 26-30 & 49)…

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📸 Photo of Eliza & caption from the NRS blog: blog.nrscotland.gov.uk/2019/07/31/e...

#WomensHistoryMonth

🕯️ #OTD (20th February) in 1677, accused “witches” Janet/Jonet Mathie, John Stewart, Margaret Jackson, Marjorie Craig and Bessie Weir were strangled and burned at the stake on Gallow Green in Paisley…🧵

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Great wee podcast for an introduction & overview of the historic Scottish Witch Trials - there are so many modern myths & misconceptions surrounding them that it can be a challenge to get…🧵

🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... or platform of your choice

#ScottishWitchcraftAccused #Witchtrials 🗃️

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery 📸

🌱Happy St Bride’s Day/Là Fhèill Brìghde or Imbolc/Imbolg to those celebrating 🔥

⬇️ Saint Bride by John Duncan (1913), National Galleries of Scotland - more info on this painting: www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti... 🎨

#history #art #folklore #festival #saint #scottish #celticrevival #gaelic

“31st January is Bride's Een, the eve of St Bride's (Brigid's) feast. The #saint seems to have become partially conflated over time with the goddess of the same name.
#OnThisDay in many parts of the Highlands…” - Read more on The Auld Scots Year’s fab FB post: www.facebook.com/share/15fj4c...

The Adder features in some interesting Scottish folklore & is currently a Protected Species, so I feel it’s a good animal to represent this kind of page/blog 🐍✨