Love Lifts The Curse

AUTHOR’S NOTEThe Scots have always been extremely superstitious and their curses are part of the history of every great Clan. For instance, Lord and Lady Airlie have a drummer at Cortachy Castle who cursed the family before he died in 1661. The drum is always heard as a prelude to another death in the family. In the seventeenth century a gypsy, whose two dumb sons were hanged for something they had not done, cursed Lord and Lady Crawford of Edzell Castle with the words, “By all the demons of hell! I curse you! For you, Lady Crawford, you shall not see the sun set, you and the unborn babe you carry will both be buried in the same grave and for you, Lord Crawford, you shall die a death that would make the boldest man ever born of a woman, even to witness, shriek with fear.” Lady Crawford died that same day and soon afterwards her husband was devoured by wolves. The Scots have every reason to dislike the ‘Sassenachs’ as they call the English. But the merest hint of Scottish blood brings out the friendliness in them and they believe that person belongs to them. I know this very well as my grandmother on my father’s side was a Falkner and a descendant of Robert the Bruce. My great-grandmother on my mother’s side was a Hamilton, so my Scottish blood makes me know that I am, indeed, a part of Scotland, and it is something I am very proud of.