Florence Nagle
Trainer and breeder of racehorses, a breeder of pedigree dogs, and an active feminist
English, Female, Feminist, Horse racing
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Aberdeenshire, Haunted, Scottish, Tower house
Inchdrewer Castle
16th-century tower house in the parish of Banff, Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland.
Shapeshifting entity of the lochs of the west coast of Scotland
Mythical creature
Sea Mither
Mythical being of Orcadian folklore that lives in the sea during summer; also known as Mither of the Sea.
Urban legend
Overtoun Bridge
Bridge over the Overtoun Burn on the western approach road to Overtoun House, near Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland that has attracted international media attention because of the number of dogs that have reportedly leapt from it, often to their deaths after landing on the rocks below.
English, Male, Poet
Robert Southey
Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England’s poet laureate for 30 years, from 1813 until his death in 1843.
Mythical creature
Blue men of the Minch
Mythological creatures who seek out sailors to drown and stricken boats to sink.
Female, Male, Scottish, Witch
Paisley witches
Also known as the Bargarran witches or the Renfrewshire witches, were tried in Paisley, Renfrewshire, central Scotland, in 1697.
Female, Scottish, Witch
Allison Balfour
The 1594 trial of alleged witch Allison Balfour is one of the most frequently cited Scottish witchcraft cases.
Apotropaic, Magic
Concealed shoes
Shoes hidden in the fabric of a building have been discovered in many European countries, as well as in other parts of the world, since at least the early modern period.
