At Heynish a family lived near Shiadar Fort, one of the small hill forts of the islands. A voice told the mother that the two best calves in the byre were dying and, as proof, the big yellow cow would be found dead at the end of the house. This proved true. The two boys who slept in the byre said they had heard fairy dogs trampling and baying on top of the house.
The Bed of the Fairy Dog is a natural recess in the rocks at Baluaig near Crogan beach, opposite a low-water rock over which the sea breaks violently. Campbell remarks that the loneliness of the spot might well attach it to tales of this kind.
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