The Bridegroom Who Was Taken, Islay

The couple's marriage feast, paid for with thirty-five gallons of whisky from his older brother, lasted a month. At the end of it an eddy wind came and the young man was seized with sickness and died. His wife had said, if the dead have feeling, that he was not to be a night absent from his bed. The night after the funeral he came home sound and healthy, saying he had been with the light people. The grave was opened by her relatives, who thought she had lost her wits, and an alder stick was found in the coffin.