The same chapter tells of a cholera ship in the Cromarty quarantine bay, and of graves of its dead, locally called the Dutchmen's graves. The white figure is placed before those events in the telling.
Curses & omens
The White Phantom of the Northern Sutor
Beach beneath the Northern Sutor, Cromarty
Traditional; told in connection with the quarantine fleet years
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 57.693, -3.992 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Hugh Miller, Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland, Chapter XVI, The Economy of Accident, The Black Years [public-domain]
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