Folklore

Edderton
Standing Stone / Menhir

There is a large and very ponderous stone in the parish of Edderton, which a giantess of the [giants’] tribe is said to have flung from the point of a spindle across the Dornoch frith...

From ‘Scenes and legends of the north of Scotland, or The traditional history of Cromarty,’ by Hugh Miller (1835).