The gin, which Miller mentions, offers a natural reading, and the tale is told with that in mind. It is a comic and eerie account in the manner of a drinking story, and it is not clear how much of it came from Millar himself.
Folklore & legend
Willie Millar in the Dropping Cave
Dropping Cave, Cromarty
Traditional; told by Miller in 1835
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 57.680, -4.025 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: Hugh Miller, Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland, Chapter XXIII, The Legend of Willie Millar [public-domain]
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