Customs and Traditions in Easter Ross - The Cholera Stone
At Nigg in 1832, cholera victims were forbidden to be buried in the churchyard. Yet, the kirk officer, Thomas Vass, who saw 'the cholera', as a yellow cloud floating across the parish, bravely caught it in a linen sheet & buried it in the graveyard! The stone with which he covered it is still intact. This stone has never been removed for fear of the disease escaping!
Image provided by Tain & District Museum
Jasper Vass, Beadle, pointing to Cholera stone - where cholera was caught and buried in Nigg Old Churchyard.
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