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Cairngorms
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The
legend of Fearlas Mor
There has long been talk of a Big Grey Man
in the Cairngorm mountains. Known locally for decades it entered popular folklore
when Professor Normal Collie reported his experiences of Fearlas Mor (as the
Big Grey Man is known locally) while on a trip to New Zealand in 1889. He later
repeated the story at a meeting of the Cairngorm Club in 1925:
"I was returning from the cairn on the summit in a
mist when I began to think I heard something else than merely the noise of my
own footsteps. Every few steps I took I heard a crunch, then another crunch as
if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length
of my own. I said to myself 'this is all nonsense'. I listened and heard it
again but could see nothing in the mist . As I walked on and the eerie crunch,
crunch sounded behind me I was seized with terror and took to my heels,
staggering blindly among the boulders for four or five miles nearly down to
Rothiemurchus Forest. Whatever you make of it I do not know, but there is
something very queer about the top of Ben MacDhui and will not go back there
again by myself I know."
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