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Celtic burial practices, which included burying grave goods of food, weapons, and ornaments with the dead, suggest a belief in life after death. [35] A common factor in later mythologies from Christianized Celtic nations was the otherworld. [36] This was the realm of the fairy folk and other supernatural beings, who would entice humans into ...
Lizanne Henderson and Edward J. Cowan, Scottish Fairy Belief: A History (Edinburgh, 2001; 2007) McNeill, F. Marian (1959). The Silver Bough, Vol. 1-4. Glasgow, William MacLellan; Nagy, Joseph Falaky (1985) The Wisdom of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition. Berkeley, University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05284-6
The "Cernunnos" type antlered figure on the Gundestrup Cauldron found in DenmarkVery little is known about religion in Scotland before the arrival of Christianity. The lack of native written sources among the Picts means that it can only be judged from parallels elsewhere, occasional surviving archaeological evidence and hostile accounts of later Christian writers.
The 16th century, the century in which Scotland played host to her own Protestant Reformation, was a quiet one for Scottish gravestones. It seems that they were seldom produced and are indeed a rare sight today in our old graveyards. More stones were produced in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Keening, which can be seen as a form of sean-nós singing, is performed in the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages (the Scottish equivalent of keening is known as a coronach). Keening was once an integral part of the formal Irish funeral ritual, but declined from the 18th century and became almost completely extinct by the middle of the 20th ...
The Ballad of Willie's Lyke-Wake from the north of Scotland records the payment of a groat for the ringing of the dead bell at his funeral by the bedral or bell-man. [11] In later, secular times, the bell ringer would pass through the streets of villages, towns or cities announcing the name of a recently deceased person, with details of the ...
At Peterborough, one Scottish gentlewoman received a "large attire of lawn with a barbe", this was perhaps Barbara Moubray, the wife of Gilbert Curle, whose name is included in the order of procession. [15] Some sketches of the funeral procession are held by the British Library (MS Add. 35324), these show conventional mourning dress. [16]
Culture of Scotland in the High Middle Ages encompasses the various forms of cultural expression that originated from Scotland during the High Medieval period. For the purposes of this article, this period is defined as spanning from the death of Domnall II in 900 to the death of Alexander III in 1286.