"four requirements: he came of his own free will, with ""the power of a king"" (by representing the Law), is a virgin, and is a fool. Defiant, Howie loudly warns Lord Summerisle and the islanders that the fruit-tree strains are failing permanently and that the villagers will turn on him (Lord Summerisle) and sacrifice him next summer when the next harvest fails as well; Summerisle angrily insists that the sacrifice of the ""willing, king-like, virgin fool"" will be accepted and that the next harvest will not fail. The villagers force Howie inside a giant wicker man statue, set it ablaze"
"the wartime Secretary of State for Scotland, Tom Johnston, asked Fraser Darling if he would run an agricultural advisory programme in the crofting areas of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. He agreed, and for two years he travelled, taught and wrote articles that were later published in book form as ""Crofting Agriculture"". The pagan-cult island of Summerisle featured in the motion picture ""The Wicker Man"" (filmed 1973) is thought by some film critics to be set in this archipelago, although the movie itself was filmed in Galloway and Skye. The Summer Isles feature in a novella of the same name"
"upper portion of the inlet which trapped fish as the tide went out. This was still marked as late as the 1850s on the OS map. Various scenes from the 1973 film ""The Wicker Man"" were filmed in and around the Isle of Whithorn. The co-owner of the Isle of Whithorn castle, Elizabeth McAdam Laughland, plus several other local people featured in various scenes. Isle of Whithorn Isle of Whithorn (""Port Rosnait"" in Gaelic), is one of the most southerly villages and seaports in Scotland, lying on the coast north east of Burrow Head, about three miles from Whithorn in"
"recent years, Burrow Head became famous as a location for the 1973 thriller film ""The Wicker Man"". Until recently the stumps of the prop used as the wicker man in the film remained visible, but these have been gradually eroded by souvenir hunters. Today much of Burrow Head is occupied by a caravan park. Burrow Head Burrow Head is the southernmost tip of the Machars peninsula in south-west Scotland. It is located approximately two miles south-west of Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire and is the second southernmost point of Scotland (after the Mull of Galloway). St. Ninian's Cave is approximately two"
"Wickerman Festival The Wickerman Festival was an annual music festival held near Auchencairn in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Dubbed ""Scotland's Alternative Music festival"", the festival celebrated its 10th Birthday in 2011 on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 July. It began in 2001 when the festivals artistic director Sid Ambrose, whilst working with the Stewartry Music Initiative, hit upon the idea of a local counter-culture based family-friendly festival due to the surrounding area being inextricably linked with various locations used within the classic British horror film ""The Wicker Man"" (1973) starring Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward. He took the idea to"
"James King Coaches. Newton Stewart's railway station was on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway and closed in 1965, as a result of the Beeching Axe. The nearest railway stations are at Stranraer and Barrhill which are respectively 25 miles and 18.5 miles away from Newton Stewart. Newton Stewart has three primary schools: The town has one secondary school, the Douglas Ewart High School. The horror film ""The Wicker Man"", set on the fictional privately-owned Scottish island of Summerisle, was filmed almost entirely (some opening scenes filmed in Plockton, Wester Ross also) on location around Newton Stewart, and had its"
"Wickerman Festival takes place in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Its main feature is the burning of a large wooden effigy on the last night. The Wickerman festival is inspired by the horror film ""The Wicker Man"", a film itself inspired by the Roman accounts of the Celtic Druids ritual burning of a wicker effigy. In Biggar, Lanarkshire, a bonfire is lit on Hogmanay (New Year's Eve) to celebrate the end of the old year and the beginning of the New Year. The bonfire takes almost a month to build using whatever combustible materials can be found. It is lit by a senior"
"at Torr House overlooking the bay. Robert de Bruce Trotter MB LRCPE LRCPSG (1833–1907) was a 19th-century Scottish physician remembered as an author and poet, principal works, ""Galloway Gossip:Sixty Years Ago (1877)"" and ""Galloway Gossip:The Southern Albanich Eighty Years Ago (1901)."" The popular Wickerman Pop Festival was held here on land owned by local landowner Jamie Gilroy who died in 2014. The end of each festival would end with the burning of a giant wicker man effigy. The festival took its name from cult film The Wicker Man starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee which was filmed on location in"
"Great Bernera Great Bernera (), often known just as Bernera () is an island and community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. With an area of just over , it is the thirty-fourth largest Scottish island. Great Bernera lies in Loch Roag on the north-west coast of Lewis and is linked to it by a road bridge. Built in 1953, the bridge was the first pre-stressed concrete bridge in Europe. The main settlement on the island is Breaclete (Gaelic: ""Breacleit""). The island, under the name of ""Borva"", was the setting for ""A Princess of Thule"" (1873) by the Scottish novelist"
"shingle beaches at the northernmost point, the Point of Ayre. The island has one mountain higher than , Snaefell, with a height of . According to an old saying, from the summit one can see six kingdoms: those of Mann, Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, and Heaven. Some versions add a seventh kingdom, that of the sea, or Neptune. At the 2016 census, the Isle of Man was home to 83,314 people, of whom 26,997 resided in the island's capital, Douglas and 9,128 in the adjoining village of Onchan. The population decreased by 1.4% between the 2011 and 2016 censuses. By"
"The Wicker Man (2006 film) The Wicker Man is a 2006 horror film written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Nicolas Cage. The film primarily is a remake of the 1973 film ""The Wicker Man"", but also draws from its source material, David Pinner's 1967 novel ""Ritual"". The film concerns a policeman named Edward Malus who is informed by his ex-fiancée Willow Woodward that her daughter Rowan has disappeared and asks for his assistance in her search. When he arrives at the island where Rowan was last seen he begins to suspect something sinister is afoot with the neo-pagans"
"piper and a servant girl. Culzean Castle is used as the castle of Lord Summerisle (played by Christopher Lee) in the 1973 cult film ""The Wicker Man"". The scenes here were filmed between October and November 1972. Culzean Castle featured in the PBS documentary series ""Castles of Scotland"" in 1997. The ""Most Haunted"" team led by Yvette Fielding, Karl Beattie and medium Derek Acorah explored Culzean Castle's paranormal stories and reported sightings of ghosts for an episode of the first series, broadcast on Living TV in 2002. The BBC TV ""Coast"" programme visited in series 2 episode 3 first shown"
"Foula Foula (pronounced //) in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, is one of the United Kingdom’s most remote permanently inhabited islands. Owned since the turn of the 20th century by the Holbourn family, the island was the location for the film ""The Edge of the World"". RMS ""Oceanic"" was wrecked on the nearby Shaalds of Foula. The name ""Foula"" derives from Old Norse ""Fuglaey"", ""bird island"": compare the Faroese name of the island of Fugloy, ""bird island"", and Scottish Gaelic ""Fughlaigh"". Foula is a bleak yet spectacular island in the Atlantic Ocean, 20 miles west of Walls in Shetland. It"
"occupied by Iron Age people and may have been attacked and burned by a Pictish raiding party, who carved a series of symbol stones in a rock beside the entrance passage. Anwoth was one of the locations for the 1973 cult film The Wicker Man. This area, with many references to Anwoth and specifically the Anwoth Hotel, is the location for most of Dorothy L Sayers detective novel ""The Five Red Herrings"". Anne Ross Cousin's hymn, ""The Sands of Time are Sinking"", mentions Anwoth, because of its historic spiritual connection with Samuel Rutherford. Verses 9 & 10 of her original"
"at the same time in autumn 2013; however as of autumn 2014 neither had been released, and the film never started production. In 2018 a rollercoaster inspired by the film opened at Alton Towers. The wooden rollercoaster features a 6 storey wicker man structure which the train passes through three times as it bursts into flames. The Wicker Man The Wicker Man is a 1973 British mystery horror film directed by Robin Hardy. It stars Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, and Christopher Lee. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel ""Ritual"", centres on"
"Isle of Man, and Norse and Gaelic-Norse settlement names from the 10th and 11th centuries are spread all along the coastal lands of south-western Scotland. Glenwhan Garden, has been created in Dunragit since 1979, and today is open to the public. Carscreugh Castle (of Earl of Stair in 1782) was the home of Janet Dalrymple, on whom Sir Walter Scott based his heroine Lucy, the Bride of Lammermoor, (who became Lucia di Lammermoor in Donizetti's opera of the same name.) Janet fell in love with and secretly betrothed to a penniless local man, Archibald Rutherford. Her parents bitterly opposed this"
"Peel on the Isle of Man by a causeway over Fenella Beach, named after the character in Sir Walter Scott's ""Peveril of the Peak"". In addition to the historic ruins, the island is partially a sealife sanctuary. St. Patrick's Isle was originally referred to as (or ) in Manx. St Patrick's Isle St Patrick's Isle () is a small tidal island on the west coast of the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, largely occupied by Peel Castle and noted for its attractive and relatively well preserved historic castle ruins. Archeological studies have shown permanent occupation on St Patrick's"
"feature, ""The Wicker Man"" 1973. John Knox stayed at Barholm Castle as guest of the MacCullochs of Barholm in 1566 while on a preaching tour of Galloway. Dr Thomas Brown, the metaphysician (1778–1820), was a native of the parish in which Creetown lies. Mary Duchess of Bedford """"The Flying Duchess"""" maintained a permanent landing ground (AA Approved) from about 1926, used when travelling to her home, nearby Cairnsmore House. The Creetown Heritage Museum is a community-based resource detailing and recording the cultural, industrial and natural history of Creetown and the surrounding area. It is run by a small volunteer committee"
"not his wife, as Lord Redesdale had willed it to his deceased son Tom. When their mother died in 1963, Nancy gave her share to Jessica, who bought the shares of Diana, Deborah and Pamela. Jessica, a former communist, teasingly suggested that it might become a Soviet submarine base. The island was sold by Jessica in the late 1960s to Andrew Barlow, son of Sir Alan Barlow, 2nd Baronet. It remains with their family. The island was a location for the 1993 feature film ""Walk Me Home"" produced by author Timothy Neat. Inch Kenneth is classified by the National Records"
"Island (Rogers novel) Island is a novel by Jane Rogers, first published in 1999. It is a contemporary novel set on an isolated Scottish island, partly inspired by Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". It uses folk tales and short episodes of brutal psychological realism to describe the mental transformation of an angry young woman. The novel has been adapted for the film ""Island"", which was released in 2011. 2 Nikki Black, a disturbed and hate-filled young woman intent on punishing the mother who abandoned her at birth goes to the island with only one aim in mind: revenge. Her plans are confounded"
"is performed on the island, such as rock, blues, jazz and pop. However, its traditional folk music has undergone a revival since the 1970s, starting with a music festival called in Ramsey. This was part of a general revival of the Manx language and culture after the death of the last native speaker of Manx in 1974. The Isle of Man was mentioned in the Who song ""Happy Jack"" as the homeland of the song's titular character, who is always in a state of ecstasy, no matter what happens to him. It is also the birthplace of Maurice, Robin and"
"film ""Ill Fares The Land"" about the last years of St Kilda. It is not currently on commercial release. The fictional island of Laerg, which features in the 1962 novel ""Atlantic Fury"" by Hammond Innes, is closely based on Hirta. The Scottish folk rock band Runrig recorded a song called ""Edge of the World"" on the album ""The Big Wheel"", which dwells on the islanders' isolated existence. The folk music singer/songwriter Brian McNeill wrote about one of St. Kilda's prodigal sons, a restless fellow named Ewan Gillies, who left St. Kilda to seek his fortune by prospecting for gold first"
"island. Katie, nursing a broken heart because of her latest break-up, is recruited to pretend to be a heavily veiled Lara to complete the charade. Subsequent circumstances lead to Katie and James falling in love. David Tennant said that the film was an homage to the 1983 Scotland-set film ""Local Hero"". The fictional island of Hegg was inspired by Jura and Eigg. It received the largest grant possible from Scottish Screen, £300,000. Rehearsals started in London on 21 June 2010. Filming began on 27 June on the Isle of Man, before moving to Scotland. Filming ended on 31 July 2010."
"of Scotland—and the Isle of Man (Mann), located in the middle of the northern Irish Sea, a strategically important point approximately equidistant from the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. In the mid 12th century Guðrøðr lost control of much of the Inner Hebrides to Somairle, Lord of Argyll, and was unable to regain these islands on Somairle's death in 1164. Like his predecessors, Guðrøðr is sometimes anachronistically styled ""King of Mann"" in secondary sources. This is because Guðrøðr, his sons Rögnvaldr and Óláfr, and his father Óláfr styled themselves ""Rex Insularum"" (""King of the Isles""); it was not until"
"of the world"". The Manx Grand Prix is a separate motorcycle event for amateurs and private entrants that uses the same Snaefell Mountain Course in late August and early September. Prior to the introduction of football in the 19th century, Cammag was the island's traditional sport. It is similar to the Irish hurling and the Scottish game of shinty. Nowadays there is an annual match at St John's. The Isle of Man has two cinemas, both in Douglas. The Broadway Cinema is located in the government-owned and -run Villa Marina and Gaiety Theatre complex. It has a capacity of 154"
"of witchcraft were rolled down Slieau Whallian, a hill near St John's, in a barrel. However this is a 19th-century legend which comes from a Scottish legend, which in turn comes from a German legend. It never happened. Separately, a witchcraft museum was opened at the Witches Mill, Castletown in 1951. There has never actually been a witches' coven on that site; the myth was only created with the opening of the museum. The music of the Isle of Man reflects Celtic, Norse and other influences, including from its neighbours, Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales. A wide range of music"
"book was made into a BBC TV film shot in the town, with Ian Carmichael playing the lead role of Lord Peter Wimsey. The town also provided locations for the cult 1973 horror film ""The Wicker Man"". Several parts of the town can be easily recognised in the film. Robert Urquhart starred in a 1980 BBC adaptation of Ibsen's ""An Enemy of the People"", shot on location in Kirkcudbright. The lyricist and poet Marriott Edgar who wrote, amongst other things, Albert and the Lion for Stanley Holloway was born in Kirkcudbright in 1880. The composer Cecil Coles, who studied under"
"cliff and it was the one found by the yachtsman in the initial scenes. Powell had been making studio based 'quota quickies' for some years but wanted to make a film about the depopulation of the Scottish islands ever since seeing a newspaper article about the evacuation of St Kilda some years before. He was not allowed to film on St Kilda, but found another suitable island in Foula in the Shetland Islands to the north of Scotland. The island depicted in the film is referred to as ""Hirta"", which is the actual name of the formerly inhabited main island"
"by many artists including Calum Kennedy. Major outdoor scenes in the films ""Stardust"" and ""The Eagle"" (based on Rosemary Sutcliff's book The Eagle of the Ninth) were shot in Wester Ross. Plockton was used for shots showing Sergeant Neil Howie's arrival at Summerisle in ""The Wicker Man"". Wester Ross is the location for the adventures of John Macnab in the book by John Buchan. Wester Ross Wester Ross () is an area of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland in the council area of Highland. The area is loosely defined, and has never been used as a formal administrative region in"
"The Island at the Top of the World The Island at the Top of the World is a 1974 American fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and starring Donald Sinden and David Hartman. In London in the year 1907, a British aristocrat named Sir Anthony Ross (Donald Sinden) hastily arranges an expedition to the Arctic to search for his lost son Donald. Donald had become lost on a whaling expedition to find the fabled island where whales go to die. Sir Anthony employs the talents of a Scandinavian-American archaeologist Professor John Ivarsson (David Hartman) and Captain Brieux (Jacques"
"used as one of the locations for the filming of ""The Manxman,"" a film based on the novel by Hall Caine. Caine lived in Greeba Castle, adjacent to St Trinian's. Despite more fanciful folk tales to the contrary, the most probable reason why the church remained unfinished is that it was being built some time in the early 14th century, while the island was under the rule of the Scots. Construction may well have halted in 1343, when William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, conquered the island and expelled its Scottish owners,which would have included the monks of Whithorn Priory."
"(Cillian Murphy) and his miserable journalist wife Kate (Thandie Newton) often visit a small, remote, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland called Blackholme Island for their holiday retreats. The only dwelling on the island, Fairweather Cottage, is seasonally operated by the owner Doug from the mainland and only reachable by ferry. After previously suffering a miscarriage, Kate's relationship with Martin has become tense, and in an effort to rekindle their marriage they decide on a return visit to the island. A few nights into their stay, the generator in the cottage explodes, injuring Martin's arm and leaving them"
"to retrieve his rifle. Now utterly alone, George runs along the beach at daybreak. He finally sits down on a rock in the fetal position and weeps hysterically as the early morning tide rises around him. The film was shot on location in 1965 on the island of Lindisfarne (also known as Holy Island) off the coast of Northumberland, England. Lindisfarne Castle, which served as the home in the film, is now a National Trust property and can be toured by the public; despite the passage of time, the building and its surroundings are largely unchanged. Like Polanski's previous film"