In the North Highlands, prophecies of this kind are ascribed to _Coineach Odhar_ (_i.e._ Dun Kenneth), a native of Ross-shire, whose name is hardly known in Argyllshire. He acquired his prophetic gift from the possession of a stone, which he found in a raven’s nest. He first found a raven’s nest with eggs in it. These he took home and boiled. He then took them back to the nest, with a view to finding out how long the bird would sit before it despaired of hatching them. He found a stone in the nest before him, and its possession was the secret of his oracular gifts. When this became known an attempt was made to take the stone from him, but he threw it out in a loch, where it still lies. He prophesied that “the raven will drink its fill of men’s blood from off the ground, on the top of the High Stone in Uig,”[79] a place in Skye. The High Stone is on a mountain’s brow, and it is ominous of the fulfilment of the prophecy, that it has fallen on its side. Of the Well of Ta, at _Cill-a-chrò_ in Strath, in the same island, he said: “Thou well of Ta, and well of Ta, Well where battle shall be fought, And the bones of growing men, Will strew the white beach of Laoras; And Lachlan of the three Lachlans be slain Early, early, At the well of Ta.”[80] In Harris a cock will crow on the very day on which it is hatched, and a white calf, without a single black hair, will be born, both which remarkable events have, it is said, occurred. A certain large stone will roll up the hill, turning over three times, and the marks of it having done so, and the proof of the prophecy, are still to be seen. On the top of a high stone in Scaristavor parks,[81] the raven will drink its fill of men’s blood, and the tide of battle will be turned back by Norman of the three Normans (_Tormod nan trì Tormoidean_) at the Steps of Tarbert (_Càthaichean an Tairbeart_).[82] _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 of Taymouth 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 at _Sron-a-chlachair_ near 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.