On landing he thanked God that he was where the hag could not reach him. Soon after she met him. 'You have given thanks,' she said, 'for getting rid of me, but it is as easy for me to make my appearance here as in your own country.' She told him he would survive the war and return home and that she would not trouble him again, that he would marry, have two daughters, and die while crossing a winter stream falling into Loch Vasipol. All of it, Campbell says, happened.
A second Tiree story tells of a man from Cornaig shooting on the Reef plain who was kissed by a fairy woman with only one nostril and lost his speech until an old man advised him to compose a love song to her.
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