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* When I write about the holly at Cawdor, it sounds like we always knew that that is what the tree was. In fact, until about ten years before my father died everyone knew it as ‘the hawthorn’. This information had been passed down by word of mouth for hundreds of years, but then my father got a small chunk of the bark analysed and its true identity was revealed. In a family of people brought up to be the museum guides of our own past this was a seismic shock on the scale of learning that Jesus’s real name was Gerard. I once read (in King Arthur by Andrew Matthews) that ‘a legend starts off as a true story, but as the story is told over and over again, it gets mixed up in our hopes and dreams. Some things are missed out, and new things are added along the way, and in the end facts and imagination run into one another until it is impossible to tell which is which.’ And that sounds about right for me.
* ‘Look What the Cat Dragged In’.
* From Chambers, 6th edn, p. 258; Scots Magazine, vol. viii, p. 192.
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