A Scots Halloween
In honour of the season, here for your reading enjoyment is an eerie Scots ballad by George MacDonald.
We craft and tell stories because we’ve stood on the uncertain edge between the waking world and our imagination, between enchantment and fear. And we remember other stories that help us build our own stories, scraps of lumber and fragments of narrative we gather together to make stories for ourselves.
In honour of the season, here for your reading enjoyment is an eerie Scots ballad by George MacDonald.
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