Hogmanay Special

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Golly: He terrorized the people of these mountains for years. Stealing the cattle. Killing the menfolk, kidnapping children from their beds where they lay. He was a beast, without a scrap of human feeling or decency. So, he had to die.

Jessica: I don't like this.

Duncan: Go on, Golly.

Golly: It was the turn of the year thirteen hundred and four, and he'd been lured here by the promise of MacDonald hospitality. His men were plied with drink which had been drugged, so they just fell down, senseless. And at the stroke of midnight the assembled company turned on the bandit chief and stabbed him, so that no one man would be held responsible. Legend has it that he was cut by fifty swords.

Molly: Uungh.

Ewan: Fantastic!

Golly: And that was the end of Mad Malcolm MacGregor.

Jessica: Thank goodness for that.

Golly: Or was it? With his dying breath he cursed the family MacDonald, and swore to haunt the House by the Water forever. Specially at Hogmanay.

Ewan: Right now, in fact.