Entering Inverness from the South, the traveller passes a small, wooded hill with a peculiar shape that rises steep behind the Caledonian Canal: Tomnahurich.
A large burial ground with old graves on the hill and newer ones circling it. Tomnahurich graveyard, Inverness. Nothing spectacular seems to hide behind the high gates of Tomnahurich.
For those who do not know because normality is nothing but an illusion on this site full of ancient myths and dark stories.
The hill is a natural rarity, Tomnahurich graveyard, Inverness a so-called esker, a ridge of solid sand and gravel, formed by glaciers long before time. That is the geological point of view.
Lore has another.
Fairies live where the dead lay buried, have lived in that hill for longer than man can remember. Unseen by most and those who saw them, paid for it with their lives.
Tomnahurich graveyard, Inverness.
Two fiddlers were once lured in, to play on a night of feasting. When they returned the next morning to breathe the fresh air of Tomnahurich hill, they crumbled to dust. 200 years had passed in what they had believed to be one night Tomnahurich graveyard, Inverness.
Some say Thomas the Rhymer is buried beneath that hill. Maybe the lover of the fairy queen still lives inside….
The graves are old on the hill of the fairies; the slopes are steep and the paths mysterious and dark.