Curses & omens

The Wailing at Port Appin Quay

The old quay, Port Appin

19th century, recorded 1902

No names are given. In Appin he also records noises in an upstairs cupboard as if someone were fumbling among bottles, heard in two houses for several nights before a sudden death in the house below, and the bottles from that cupboard were used at the funeral.

Evidence
Single witness account
Access
Open ground
Location
56.556, -5.402 (Sited to the village)

Sources: John Gregorson Campbell, Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (1902), Project Gutenberg [public-domain]

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