More folklore connected with Callanish is that it was a traditional place to exchange betrothal vows. Any marriage consummated amongst the stones would be especially happy.
(from Grinsell’s collected folklore of prehistoric sites)
TomBo’s story below is very reminiscent of the story told at Mitchell’s Fold.
In ‘the Secret Country’ the Bords add the weird information that the white cow (white with red ears perhaps – a typical otherworldly animal) appeared ‘in the sea’ at this time of famine. It politely interrupted a woman who was so desperate she was intent on drowning herself – telling her to go to the Callanish stones with her neighbours and a couple of pails. I wonder why it should have originated in the sea?