Fairy Court

There was a hollow known as “the Seely Howe” – the Hollow of the Fairy Court. The fairies lived here and were perfectly contented and friendly. However, just before setting off to fight at Culloden in 1745 one of the Gordon Clan, Charles Gordon decided, for reasons unknown, that he had had enough of his fairy neighbours and demanded that the local wizard or Fairy Doctor, John Farquharson rid them from the Seely Howe. John using his wizardry cast a spell to get the fairies to leave. The fairies were understandably incensed and refused to leave as Farquharson had failed to find them somewhere else to live. The land was then destroyed during Jacobite uprising by the Hanovarian army.