Scotland 2022
Isle of Skye: Scotland 2022
In 1595, William Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Whilst the play is primarily set in Classical Greece the woodland scenes including Oberon, the fairy King, Titania, the fairy Queen and the mischievous spirit, Puck, are deeply routed in the folklore of Elizabethan England.
In many places that folklore has been forgotten or overwritten by new narratives but, in some of the more remote places, those memories remain strong.
In his 1935 book about Skye, ‘The Misty Isles’, the author J A MacCulloch notes:
But if fairies do not abound, stories about the do, and are firmly believed…
Farias may not abound om Skye but a new generation of tourists are happy to explore the rich folklore of Skye and flock to mystical and magical locations like the Fairy Glen and the Fairy Pools.
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