5288 x 3512 px | 44,8 x 29,7 cm | 17,6 x 11,7 inches | 300dpi
Lieu:
Channory Point, Fortrose. Easter Ross. Highland Region. Scotland. United Kingdom.
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The Brahan Seer, known in his native Scottish Gaelic as Coinneach Odhar. His existence is legendary at best, and some have questioned whether he really existed at all. He is thought to have come from Uig on lands owned by the Seaforths, and to have been a Mackenzie, although both these details are in themselves questioned. He is better known, however, for his connections to Brahan Castle near Dingwall, and the Black Isle in Easter Ross. He is thought to have used a stone with a hole in the middle to see his visions. The Brahan Seer worked for the third Earl of Seaforth, Kenneth MacKenzie (died 1678). As with Nostradamus, who wrote in Provençal, most of his prophecies are best known in translation, which can in itself be deceptive. However, there are no contemporary manuscripts or accounts of his predictions, so it is impossible to verify them. Background Information in this article or section has not been verified against sources and may not be reliable. Please check for inaccuracies and modify as needed, citing the sources against which it was checked. Having become famous as a diviner and wit, he was invited to Seaforth territory in the east, to work as a labourer at Brahan Castle near Dingwall, in what is now the county of Easter Ross. This led to an unfortunately unforeseen sequence of events on the Seer's part, leading to his barbaric murder at Chanonry Point, allegedly burnt in a spiked tar barrel, on the command of Lady Seaforth. The simple prediction that led to his downfall — that the absent Earl Seaforth was having extramarital sex with one or more women in Paris — seems not unlikely, but of course highly outrageous to Lady Seaforth, as it cast her husband in a scandalous light and heaped embarrassment on her. The Caledonian Canal "One day ships will sail round the back of Tomnahurich Hill" This is a remarkable prediction which has in time come to be true,
