The stag is an icon of the Scottish Highlands. It is a beautiful and impressive animal so perhaps it’s unsurprising that it features in so much folklore. In many European mythologies the deer was associated with woodland deities. Tales of Artemis, the Greek goddess of wilderness, tell of her wrath and retribution visited upon those who trespassed into her domain. By controlling the weather she kept King Agamemnon’s fleet bound for Troy confined to port, to avenge the killing of a stag sacred to

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