In one version the butler boy Luran at Mingary Castle entered a fairy dwelling and found the company feasting. A shining cup, an cupa cearrarach, produced whatever liquor its holder named. The fairies asked him, Did you ever see the like of that in Mingary Castle? He ran off with the cup and they pursued him. A voice called him to make for the black stones of the shore, and he escaped. The fairies said Luran would be swift if it were not the hardness of his bread, and that with warm milk and soft barley bread none of the sixteen could catch him.
In the Lochaber version the fairies stole a white cow and a dog called Luran chased them, but loitered to eat bread they threw. In the first Ardnamurchan telling the fairies' persecution of Luran never ended, and while on his way to Inveraray Castle with his fairy cup he was lifted out of the boat and never seen again.
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