Brahan Seer

The Brahan Seer, known in his native Scottish Gaelic as Coinneach Odhar ("Dark Kenneth"), and Kenneth Mackenzie, was, according to legend, a predictor of the future who lived in the 17th century.

The Brahan Seer is regarded by some to be the creation of the folklorist Alexander MacKenzie (1838–1898) whose accounts occur well after some of the events the Seer is claimed to have predicted. Others have also questioned whether the Seer existed at all.

Hugh Miller (1802-1856), in his Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland (first edition 1835) gives an account of Kenneth Ore, a Highlander of Ross-shire, who could foresee events by looking through a white stone. Several of the predictions given in the book are the same as in the later book by Alexander MacKenzie.

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