Dark Celtic history - The Ghosts of Glencoe

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by Jeff McDonald
Dark Celtic history - Murder! Massacre! Betrayal! Treason! Glencoe is one of the most spectacular areas of unspoiled wilderness in Scotland. There is a haunting quality about the moor-clad mountains that stand as sentinels over the eight-mile-long glen which runs from east to west along the northern border of Argyll. And there are those who say that the glen is haunted, for this is the ‘Glen of Weeping’, the site of one of the greatest atrocities in Scottish history. Even at the best of times, Scotland has a grim and dark history. Murder has always been considered the foulest of crimes in Scots Law. But in the Highlands with its strict code of hospitality, there is a more heinous crime. It is called ‘Murder under Trust’. That is why the massacre of Glencoe has reverberated so strongly through the ages, Those MacDonalds had taken in the regiment of British Soldiers, mostly Clan Campbell, and given them shelter, food, and friendship. and this is why the spirits of the slain MacDonald clansmen are said to return to the ‘Glen of Weeping’ from time to time, but especially every year on the anniversary of that fateful day, 13th February 1692.