The Buchanites Part Four: Translation and the 40 Day Fast
The Buchanites settled at Buchan Hall on the land of New Cample Farm and had lived here for almost 3 and a half years waiting for Armageddon to come. When a strange voice was heard speaking from the clouds one midnight, Elspeth concluded that her followers needed to purify themselves and instituted a 40 day fast.
By way of #introduction, I would define the Unseelie Path as the idiosincratic approach that I've been developing over the years to make #photography a magical way of capturing the invisible world.
The next part of the Buchanites' story will drop later today.
Meanwhile, here's part one again just in case you missed it.
The Buchanites Part One: The Woman Clothed in Sun
The Buchanites were a Christian Sect led by the charismatic Elspeth Buchan in the late 18th and early 19th Century Scotland.
The Buchanites Part One: The Woman Clothed in Sun
The Buchanites were a Christian Sect led by the charismatic Elspeth Buchan in the late 18th and early 19th Century Scotland.
The Buchanites Part Two : Flight into the Wilderness
In the second part of our wee series on the Buchanites, Elspeth encounters some serious opposition to her beliefs. After meeting Hugh White, Elspeth stayed with him in Irvine, and he let her speak to his congregation. Very quickly, Elspeth's beliefs were stirring up animosity and wrath among the people of the Northern Ayrshire town.
Here it is, the last of my wee videos about the Buchanites.
After Elspeth's passing and Hugh White's desertion, Andrew Innes became the defacto leader of the Buchanites that remained at Crocketford. For 50 long years, he lived with the secret of what had happened to Elspeth's body, while patiently waiting for her return.
Beaches are places of intertidal liminality. Transient, impermanent and ever changing. To be the first person to walk on the sands as the tide retreats, is to find the world remade.
@DarkGalloway The world is so vast and much of it unexplored. To be able to find such beauty in a photo on a place you stumbled upon is breathtaking. Props on the photo my friend📷
Here's my latest wee history video about the life and work of Scottish Artist and Glasgow Girl, Jessie M King. Jessie lived in Kirkcudbright for many years, at her house, Greengate.
