Wood gives the tale as told by an informant, in the malignant fairy mode. Nothing in it is dated, and no record of such a drowning is cited. Treat it as legend.
Folklore & legend
The Fairy Ice Dancers of Edingham Loch
Loch of Edingham, near Dalbeattie
Undated
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 54.951, -3.816 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: J. Maxwell Wood, Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland (1911) [public-domain]
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