The story has a neat moral, with the ghost as a protector, which is a sign it has been polished in the telling. Wood gives it as a handed-down narrative. The exact site of the bridge is not fixed by the source, and the pin is a guess for the Dundrennan area.
Hauntings
The Headless Lady of Buckland Glen
Buckland Glen, near Dundrennan
Undated tradition
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 54.807, -3.948 (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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