Fairyland Aberfoyle Land for Sale
Why Fairyland?
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Aberfoyle is known as the centre of the Scottish Fairy world mainly due to Robert Kirk, the ‘Fairy Minister’. ‘Robert Kirk (9 December 1644 – 14 May 1692) was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight, a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands’. However, the Fairy associations don’t stop there as the Fairies are apparently still alive and well in the present day, it seems, with locals telling contemporary stories of encounters with ‘the wee folk’. A feature of the land is the ‘Fairy pathway’ or ‘ley line’ which crosses the land and heads towards the old Bailey Nicol Jarvie. The Faye walk these pathways when the moon is full…
Tokens/wishes are left at the summit of the Fairy Hill
One of the many Fairy hummock/houses on the Fairy Hill and round about...
And ye might tell, ayont the faem,
The Hieland clashes o’ our hame,
To speak the truth, I take na shame
To half believe them;
And, stamped wi’ TUSITALA’S name,
They’ll a’ receive them.
And folk to come, aeon the sea,
May hear the yowl of the Banshie,
And frae the water kelpie flee,
Ere a’ things cease,
And island bairns ay be stolen be
By the Folk o’ Peace
Faith, they may steal me, wi’ ma will,
And, ken’d I only Fairy hill,
I’d lay me down there, snow and still,
Their land to win,
For, man, I’ve mistily had my fill
O’ this worlds din.
The winding path up Fairy Hill