A female red deer is known as a hind, and this graceful animal was considered especially sacred by the Celts and Druids. In Scotland they are called "fairy cattle" and it is said that they are milked on the mountain tops by the fairies. Others believe that the hinds themselves are fairy women who have taken the form of deer. There were at least three great hag-goddesses in Scotland who cared for these fairy cattle- one, called the Cailleach-mor-nam-fiadh, lived in the mountains of Jura, another, known as the Cailleach mhor Chlibric (The Great Hag of Clibric), protected the deer from hunters, and the third, the Cailleach Beinn-a-bhric, herded and milked them in the hills and forests. Verses of her milking song are still known to this day. Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm