Milk was poured for him every evening in a hollow in a stone called the Gruagach stone, or the cream would not rise. He untied cattle at night so that people had to get up several times to tie them, and was heard laughing and tittering in the byre. He walked beside people but never spoke.
At Tota Roam in Scorrybreck a woman driving calves into the byre was kept out by the Gruagach, who played with them, and in a rage she cursed him. He slapped her cheek and killed her. All that night, though, he kept the fire alive for the woman who sat up watching the body. Campbell says the libation stones at Holm, East-side and Scorrybreck near Portree could still be seen, and that in Braes the same spirit was a young woman called the Glaistig, whose milk was poured on Macqueen's Big Rock.
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