On the shallows, or oitir, between Tiree and Coll the witches of the two islands were often seen fighting for the flounders that abound there. Campbell thinks the appearance that suggested the fancy was the broken water seen on those banks in stormy weather. Another year the witches of Uist and Tiree had a similar contest, the Tiree witches prevailed, and men of a past generation believed every flounder caught that year on the Tiree shore had a hole in its tail.
In another story the Tiree witches, passing Kennavara Hill in eggshells on their way to Ireland, were drowned when the husband of one of them wished them God speed.
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