In May 1993 I was granted the Cusidh affix (now jointly held
with my daughter Elise Cartmell) when I bred from my foundation bitch
Ardkinglas Pattie with Fearnwood Sound of Ryan. Later Pattie’s granddaughter Cusidh
Sian was mated with Chapeltower Zog whose mother was Ardkinglas Polka, Pattie’s
sister. My first deerhound who was very close to me died very young from
cancer. Since then I had wanted an affix that suggested a connection with the
world of the spirit so I put ‘Cu’ - hound with ‘Sith’ – fairy and only later
discovered that there were mythological ‘Cusidhs’. I was, and still am, living
in Fife and it also turned out that the ‘sidhe’ was a name for the early,
probably pictish, inhabitants of
The following articles tell some of the stories about these dogs and, as Francis Thompson notes in The Supernatural Highlands 1997,
‘The existence in
By Claire Cartmell
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