During the late Nineteenth Century, Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912) gathered the folk prayers, hymns, and incantations for his Carmina Gadelica while traveling as an exciseman in the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Dealing with every aspect of daily life, binding otherwise ordinary activities to the Divine Presence that blessed these actions and protected the men and women involved in them, these spiritual treasures testify to the resilience of an ancient Gaelic spiritual culture that was passed from one generation to the next over the centuries