The Ardvorlich Charm-Stone

The stone was a very fine specimen of rock crystal in a silver setting that looked Saracenic and old. Up to 1840, and later, people came from long distances to have it dipped in water while the laird or lady repeated a Gaelic incantation. The water was carried home, with the condition that the bearer must not enter any house until he arrived, and then given to cattle to drink or sprinkled over them to cure murrain. On the laird's death in 1854 the stone was sent into a bank for safe custody, and all its healing properties were said to have been destroyed. The account also says the last lady to use it had no Gaelic.