Photo of a white deer taken in Mull in April 1972The BBC rported today that a rare white stag had been seen and filmed in the West Coast of the Highlands, by a member of the John Muir Trust. The Trust said that white deer were potent figures in the mythology of many cultures. The Celts considered them to be messengers from the other world.
It brought to mind that we had seen and snapped a white deer on our honeymoon in Mull in April 1972. As far as I remember, we saw it in some trees somewhere on the road between Craignure and Fionnphort. I looked back through our albums, found the above photo, albeit it's not terribly clear, and scanned it into the computer. In mythology white deer were also said to be closely identified with unicorns and their appearance was said to herald some profound change in the lives of those who encounter them. I suppose that was appropriate, since when we saw it we'd been married for less than a week.
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