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Hillwalking Special: Companion looking for supernatural activity on Schiehallion is warned off by the freezing conditions
By Cameron McNeish, The Sunday Herald
THE spirit of the Cailleach Bheur, the blue hag who according to Rannoch legend rides the wings of the storms to deal out her icy death to unfortunate travellers, was clearly manifesting her cold charms on the upper reaches of Schiehallion.
My companion was more in tune with these curios than I was. Lawrence Main was in the second week of a length of Britain pilgrimage visiting ancient, sacred sites. He had started his mammoth walk at the Callanish Standing Stones on Lewis and had worked his way south via Culloden’s Clava Cairns and Bennachie. I had collected him from his lonely camp at the head of Glen Lyon where he had been visiting the old yew tree at Fortingall (Pontius Pilate is said to have been born in the area) and the Praying Hands of Mary, a set of split standing stones in the upper reaches of the glen.
Main writes walking guides for a living, and lectures on Earth Mysteries. He is a druid and the purpose of his walk is to raise publicity for the Vegan Society. “If we were all vegans we’d only need 10 million acres of agricultural land to supply our needs,” he said, “that’s a quarter of the agricultural land in England and Wales alone.”
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