Scottish Mysteries. (spirits)

NOT VERY NEIGH-BOURLY

Spirits resented human interference when stones from the Mains of Hatton Recumbent Stone Circle in Aberdeenshire were removed to form gateposts. Horses seemed to sense their anger and avoided the gate, so the farmer decided to return the stones to their original site. The spirits approved of this change of heart: “while two horses with difficulty dragged each stone downhill to the gate, one only found it easy work to pull a stone uphill from the gate to the circle”.