Scotland’s Stories: Bride and Angus - David Campbell

Did you ever wonder where the snow and ice come from in the dead of winter?
Bride tended the spring lambs, and as day follows night, spring follows winter, and the young Bride and Angus battle the one-eyed, blue-faced goddess of winter, Beira, and her storm hags.
Beira, the Cailleach Bheur, lived high up on the mountains of Schiehallion, the Cuillins and Ben Nevis where she ruled Scotland as the Queen of Winter and protected the deer and goats of the mountains.
Folk point to the Corryvreckan Whirlpool where Beira washed her plaid as white as snow.
In Scotland, 25 April marks the end of winter and the start of spring, and used to be named 'Là na Caillich' - 'Cailleach Day'.
Each Halloween the Cailleach Bheur is revealed at Edinburgh's Samhuinn Festival.
© David Campbell
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[@Fluffgar]

Would like again if I could. Love when something reminds me of this story and I come back here to hear it again.

[@deborahdunleavy4624]

What a delight to discover this video. Wonderful telling David.

[@Fluffgar]

A well told tale. Tapadh leibh.

[@whitehair8824]

Beautiful telling

[@wynstansmom829]

"Some say", aye and a wee bonnie storyteller, you be. May Jesse Scott and her granddaughter look upon your stories and whisper some of their own. And there they rest...Let sleeping angels sing!

[@ScottishStorytellingCentreEd]

Have passed on your comment to David :)

[@wynstansmom829]

@@ScottishStorytellingCentreEd Thank you, and I will be posting this on our Reddit, MBTI RadioSTation.

[@ScottishStorytellingCentreEd]

@@wynstansmom829 Wonderful Stuff!