Folklore

Loch Migdale Henge
Henge

Relating to the lake on the bank of which the henge stands (and in which the crannog sits):

The Banshee, or Vaugh, or Weird Woman of the Water.

Four or five miles from Skibo there is a lake called Migdall, with a great granite rock of the same name to the north of it. At one end a burn runs out past Moulinna Vaugha, or the kelpie’s mill. It is also haunted by this banshee, which the miller’s wife saw about three years ago. She was sitting on a stone, quiet, and beautifully dressed in green silk, the sleeves of which were curiously puffed from the wrist to the shoulder. Her long hair was yellow, like ripe corn, but on a nearer view she turned out to have no nose. – (Miller’s wife).

‘The Folk-lore of Sutherlandshire’ by Miss Dempster, in The Folk-Lore Journal v.6 (1888).