n. putting a person on trial after you have drowned them
Story is that a man wouldn’t leave his cell so the folk of Cupar flooded it, accidentally drowning him. Cheated out of a trial, they put his body in the stand anyway.
see also: JEDDART JUSTICE. n. putting a person on trial after you have hanged them
Nechtan, King of Picts asked a saint to build Dargie Kirk at Invergowrie. The devil (in Fife) threw 2 sheeplike boulders at the site, but hit the Tay river instead. This was the basis of Thomas the Rhymer’s prophecy on the Yowes o Gowrie.
Dundonians argue that the devil lives in Fife, but Fifers take a different stance.
Prior to the 17th Century, Cupar was flanked by a sizable loch and wetland. Since drained, it required a ferry to cross it (dashed line) and kept the Lords of the Congregation and Mary of Guise’s armies apart in 1559. The Bonnygate and Crossgate are marked in red for ref.
