The Hogboon of Hellihowe – a tale from Orkney

(retold byMarilyn McPhie) Long, long ago there were mounds in Scotland.  Some exist to this day.  But in the long ago times, each mound was said to have a mound-dweller, which they called a hogboon. It’s difficult to say just what a hogboon looked like.  People didn’t write down the descriptions, because they assumed that […]

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