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Lucky White Heather
One bright sunny summers day Malvina was sitting outside listning to her father's singing and playing , she sowing a the last pieces of her wedding gown. It was a peacful happy day, the birds accompanied the bard and the water from the nearby burn gurgled and danced over the rocks. Away in the distance she spotted a lone figure limp and stumble over a near by ben.
Malvina immediately dropped her sowing and ran to help the injured traveller, but as she drew closer she could began to recognise the man. It was Oscars servant and he was badly injured. Malvina felt her heart sink, she knew just by looking at the ragged man she would never see Oscar again. The messenger fell down infront of her exhausted and gave her apiece of purple heather which Oscar had pulled from the ground as he had died. The heather was to show Malvina his undying love and that his last thoughts had been of her.
The lassie was heart broken, her tears flowed like the burn and as she cried the tears washed the purple from the heather and the heather became white. Ossian finally reached his daughter and helped her and the messenger back to thier home, and all the while Malivina wept and her tears washed the purple which grew all over the glen. Where ever her tears fell the heather turned white.
Through her misty eyes the lassie noticed this change and she fell on her knees and prayed to her godess that others might never be as unfortuante as her and that this white heather be a token of good luck to all who found it and plucked it.
The Celtic bard Ossian had a beautiful daughter called Malvina, Malvina was not just beautiful she was a good person too. The fair maid Malvina was engaged to be married to a brave and handsome warrior called Oscar.
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