Angus Folklore

A trawl through the folklore, history, tales, and ephemera of Angus.

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Besom Jimmy Homesick Blues - A Lost Lost Angus Hawker and Songsmith

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What connects Bob Dylan and the Ancient City, Brechin? The correct answer is, of course, nothing. Nothing, directly that is. Despite having...
Sunday, 15 June 2025

The Perambulation of Parishes and Riding of the Marches

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 The old custom of perambulating - carefully walking - the boundaries of parishes, burghs and estates is no longer practised in Britain, exc...
Thursday, 26 September 2024

An Away Day With the Fairies in Brechin

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 Is there something odd about Brechin? No, obviously not. But is there something supernaturally strange about the burgh? Maybe. I only ask ...
Friday, 17 May 2024

Tales of the Whales - Part Four

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   To look back on Dundee's whale fishing industry is to wipe away the soot from a dirty window and peer in at a long gone where where...
Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Ochterlony's Account of the Shire of Forfar - Part Three

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  This is the third part of John Ochterlony's Account of the Shire of Forfar, written around 1682, and gives a fascinating, if brief and...
Wednesday, 1 November 2023

The Ballad of Lord Spynie

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Few people know much about the noble title of Spynie or those who bore that name. There were several Lord Spynie's in the late 16th and...
Thursday, 16 February 2023

'The Ball O' Kirriemuir' - Did it Really Happen?

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 Those among us who are not overly fond of hearing about orgies may not be pleased with further information about the notorious sexualised b...
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