The Legend of Ardnamurchan

<p><span style=color: rgba(80 0 80 1)>There is a place where land meets </span><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>sea and truth meets legend... </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(80 0 80 1)> </span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(80 0 80 1)>Silkies are men on land and seals at sea mythical creatures that live around the shores </em><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>of the Ardnamurchan. In human form they are </em><em style=color: rgba(80 0 80 1)>tall and beautiful with long silky raven hair and larger-than-human eyes. The Ardnamurchan people </em><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>believed in them their heroism in rescuing humans in danger at sea. But the waters of silkie folklore became muddied with modern scientific thinking </em><em style=color: rgba(80 0 80 1)>and silkies were reclassified as 'the mythology of the ancestors' and packed off to fairyland where all make-believe things go. Ashamed of their imaginary status they retreated behind a veil </em><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>to live in virtual anonymity: unseen but not unreal.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(80 0 80 1)> </span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Eventually something happened. When an evil entity threatened the life and soul of the Ardnamurchan the banished creatures - that is the silkies and some others called the sea hounds - returned from 'behind the veil' and united with the land folk (as they called them) to do something pure-dead-brilliant that healed the land.</em></p><p><br></p>