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Branwen wrote:
The thing about the Cailleach family in Glen Lyon is that local stories have it that they can look after themselves. Photos won't develop for some people. The stone family have been removed, only to mysteriously reappear. They sit in their hut, then move out to sit outside it, and no one sees the caretakers that move them, or rescue them from wherever they have been taken when they go missing. I grew up on remote farms and the caretakers used to be tough old shepherds, travellers, and the like.
if nobody saw them being removed or replaced how do we know they ever left in the first place ?

There were said to have been removed by a local vicar at one point, in a sermon which said, so much for your idolatry of stones. They were back the next time someone went up there to check, however. I think Ann Ross in her book quotes someone reporting them gone, but when checked on, they were back again. Perhaps an urban myth to put people off taking them?