The chamberlain's son found a horse on the moors and was struck by how good it was. It tore away at full gallop and could not be stopped, and when one side of the reins broke it rushed out onto the loch with its rider. The other tale says the farm on the north side of the loch, now only blowing sand, was called the Town of the Clumsy Ones because five brothers there each had six fingers on each hand. A water-horse came each night as a young man to see their sister. Campbell tells of Calum Mor Clarke and his sons beguiling it into the house, getting it on its back on the bed, and, when it took its true shape, cutting it to pieces with their dirks.
Another Tiree water-horse, from Loch an Air, tore a fleeing man's coat to shreds before dogs drove it off.
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