Lag was a real man, remembered for hunting Covenanters. The funeral tale is the kind that grows around a much-hated figure, and Wood quotes it as tradition. The death date is documented; the rest is legend.
Curses & omens
Sir Robert Grierson of Lag: Boiling Water, a Raven and a Hearse That Would Not Move
The Turnpike house, Plainstones, Dumfries, and the road to Dunscore kirkyard
31 December 1733 and after
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 55.068, -3.608 (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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