The Lady of Lawers.—Of similar fame for her prophetic gifts was the Lady of Lawers (Bantighearna Lathuir), one of the Breadalbane family, married to Campbell of Lawers. Her prophecies relate to the house and lands of Breadalbane, and are written, it is believed, in a book shaped like a barrel, and secured with twelve iron hoops or clasps in the charter room ofTaymouth Castle. This book is called ‘The Red Book of Balloch.’
The Lady of Lawers.—Of similar fame for her prophetic gifts was the Lady of Lawers (Bantighearna Lathuir), one of the Breadalbane family, married to Campbell of Lawers. Her prophecies relate to the house and lands of Breadalbane, and are written, it is believed, in a book shaped like a barrel, and secured with twelve iron hoops or clasps in the charter room ofTaymouth Castle. This book is called ‘The Red Book of Balloch.’
An old white horse will yet take the lineal heirs of Taymouth (or, according to another version, the last Breadalbane Campbells) across Tyndrum Cairn. When she said this there were thirty sons in the family, but soon after twenty-five of them were slain in the battle atSron-a-chlachairnear Killin (Cill-Fhinn).
If the top stone were ever put on Lawers Church no word uttered by her would ever come true, and when the red cairn on Ben Lawers fell the church would split. In the same year that the cairn, built by the sappers and miners on Ben Lawers, fell, the Disruption in the Church of Scotland took place.
“A mill will be on every streamlet,A plough in every boy’s hand,The two sides of Loch Tay in kail gardens;The sheep’s skull will make the plough useless,And the goose’s feathers drive their memories from men.”83
“A mill will be on every streamlet,A plough in every boy’s hand,The two sides of Loch Tay in kail gardens;The sheep’s skull will make the plough useless,And the goose’s feathers drive their memories from men.”83
“A mill will be on every streamlet,A plough in every boy’s hand,The two sides of Loch Tay in kail gardens;The sheep’s skull will make the plough useless,And the goose’s feathers drive their memories from men.”83
“A mill will be on every streamlet,
A plough in every boy’s hand,
The two sides of Loch Tay in kail gardens;
The sheep’s skull will make the plough useless,
And the goose’s feathers drive their memories from men.”83
This was to happen in the time of “John of the three Johns, the worst John that ever was, and there will be no good till Duncan comes.”
A stone called the ‘Boar Stone’ (Clach an Tuirc),a boulder of some two or three hundred tons in a meadow near Loch Tay, will topple over when a strange heir comes to Taymouth, and the house will be at its height of honour when the face of a certain rock is concealed by wood.