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Michelle Gross, like many newcomers to Fayetteville, mispronounced "Skibo" her first time out in the city. And she didn't know why there were so many businesses and street names featuring the word ...

If there is one thing Halloween is known for, it's the monsters. On October 31, Scots of all ages will be dressing up as vampires, zombies, and werewolves. While all of these creatures are spooky in ...

Revered and reviled as one of the greatest villainesses of literature, Lady Macbeth is certainly in the same archetypal category as Medusa, Circe and Morgan le Fay. However, Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth" ...

Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael LoRé is a soccer and golf journalist based in New York City. Whenever Leland Archer arrives for training at the Hibernian ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I drink, I eat, I write. Distilled at the Ben Nevis distillery in 1972, the whisky spent 45 years in a sherry hogshead before the ...

It could have been the Loch Ness Monster — giant, mysterious and foreboding. Or, as some preferred, the Kelpie: a mystical shape-shifter often portrayed as a water horse in Scottish lore. But what ...

Shrouded in mist and myth, Plummpton is a settlement that refuses to die quietly, despite being erased from modern maps. Located roughly 27 miles northwest of Stirling near an ancient stone marker, ...

In Scotland, the New Year rings in with a rousing party and celebration of friendship Hogmanay is not some weird pig roast. It’s the Scottish New Year, and it is celebrated with more fervor than ...

The voters of Scotland must wait until the Sept. 18 referendum to decide whether they want to remain citizens of Great Britain or become citizens of a newly independent country. But audiences at a ...