The fairy hills of the Highlands

The minister of Strachur and Stralachlan in Argyll wrote in the Statistical Account of a small conical hill, seen from Inveraray, whose name meant the fairy dwelling of a multitude. Such hills were given to the fairies to live in, and sweet music was heard from them and lights seen on dark nights. The account of Kirkmichael told of green mounds by the burns called sioth-dhunan, where travellers heard fairy music and saw phantom hunters chasing the deer of the clouds. A doubting clergyman there was said to have been carried off through the air by the fairies one night and set down at his own door, and after that he believed.