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The Nine Children At Sunart
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John Gregorson Campbell
Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
James Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow
1900
Scotland
The Nine Children At Sunart: children drowned by deceptive water-horse. 
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The Nine Children At Sunart
A number of children went on a Sunday to amuse themselves in the neighbourhood of the ‘Loch of Disaster’ (_Loch na Dunach_) in this district. They fell in with a horse, caught it, and in their thoughtless sport mounted it. Its back got longer till they were all mounted, except one, who had a Bible in his pocket. He touched the horse with his finger, and had to cut it off to save himself. The horse rushed into the lake, and the children, nine in number, were never more seen. The liver of one of them came ashore next day.
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