GLAMIS CASTLE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 11

GLAMIS CASTLE.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE I'BESS. Sir,—ln your issue of the 19th in-stant.-your correspondent I. Cull gives a very interesting account of a . supernatural' storm that .visits Glamis Castle at various periods. Will you -allow me to trespass on your valuable space by supplying a. further story, ■ that ; has i been handed down from v the year. 1432 P.. . ■>_ "Alexander Lindsay, . fourth ..Earl of Crawford, commonly known as Earl; Beardie or the' Tiger. Earl, with several of his friends.-was visiting Glamis Castle. As, was the . custom of those dalys, much time was spent in carousals of a very boisterious nature. The Tiger Earl is believed to be stial play-, ing /at 'the De'il's buicfes'; in a mysterious chamber;' in Glamis: Castle» of -which no one knows the entrance—- . doomed to play there ,still the -end Ot. time.', He. was .constantly losing, it it» said, when ; on one of his companions advising him to »give up the game—- ' Never,' said, he. 'till the Day of Judgment.' The . evil- one instantly appeared, and .both chamber and com--1 jJany,- vanished. No one .has since dis- . coveted them, but in • the stormy . nights, when the. winds'howl drearily* * *- i ' *