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The Fairy Hillock.
About a mile up Wick river on the south bank you will find the Fairy Hillock.
In 1895 a man who went by the name of Levack accompanied by a man Grant went up the river to the Fairy Hillock. Levack uttered the following incantation.
"By the spirits' mystic power, felt at lonely midnight hour,
By the weird and awful spell, weaved, conceived in depths of Hell,
By the power that opens graves, making ghouls and devils slaves,
Dreadful as the thunders crash, blighting as the lightnings' flash,
Swifter than the lights' career, queen of fairyland appear, appear."
Instantly the river banks were alive with fairies, dancing around their queen. From the middle of the dancing throng of fairies a huge black shape emerged which spoke, and demanded, " Who art thou?" to which Levack replied " In the name of all that is sacred, depart!"
The fairy queen and her throng quickly faded away, and the two men returned
to Wick. Levack lost no time in telling everyone of the great adventure and he became so famous that the local populace presented him with an inscribed cane to mark his bravery against the fairy folk of Wick river.
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