Editing Glamis Castle (section)

==Legends and tales==

===The Monster of Glamis===
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The most famous legend connected with the castle is that of the Monster of Glamis, a hideously deformed child born to the family. Some accounts came from singer and composer [[Virginia Gabriel]], who stayed at the castle in 1870.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-monster-of-glamis-92015626/?no-ist|title=The Monster of Glamis|publisher=Smithsonian|author=Dash, Mike|date=10 February 2012|access-date=14 May 2014}}</ref> In the story, the monster was kept in the castle all his life and his suite of rooms bricked up after his death.<ref name=haunted>[http://www.hauntedcastlesandhotels.com/Scotland/glamis.htm Haunted Castles And Hotels: Glamis Castle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911092303/http://www.hauntedcastlesandhotels.com/Scotland/glamis.htm |date=11 September 2019 }}, ''Haunted Castles and Hotels'', 9 June 2009. Accessed 9 September 2010.</ref><ref name=dash>Dash, Mike. [http://blogs.forteana.org/node/75 The Monster of Glamis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712072636/http://blogs.forteana.org/node/75 |date=12 July 2014 }} , ''CFI Blogs'', 9 June 2009. Accessed 8 September 2010.</ref><ref>''The Crawford Papers: The Journals of David Lindsay, Twenty-Seventh Earl of Crawford during the years 1892–1940'' (1984) Manchester University Press pp. 86–87</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=James |last=Wentworth-Day |year=1967 |title=The Queen Mother's Family Story |pages=133–136}}</ref> Another monster is supposed to have dwelt in Loch Calder near the castle.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}

An alternative version of the legend is that to every generation of the family a vampire child is born and is walled up in that room.<ref name=dash/>

There is an old story that guests staying at Glamis once hung towels from the windows of every room in a bid to find the bricked-up suite of the monster. When they looked at it from outside, several windows were apparently towel-less. Though this is more likely due to the owners removing them in order so that the guests would not find the rooms, according to several relatives of the family.<ref name=dash/>

The legend of the monster may have been inspired by the true story of the Ogilvies.<ref name=dash/><ref>T.F. Thistleton Dyer (1900) ''Strange Pages From Family Papers'', pp. 98–103</ref><ref>''Chambers's Journal'' 1898, pp. 627–28</ref>

===Earl Beardie===
A legend tells of the 15th-century "Earl Beardie," who has been identified with both Alexander Lyon, 2nd Lord Glamis (died 1486),<ref name=haunted/> and with [[Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford]] (died 1453).<ref name="Ash, Russell 2009 184">{{cite book |title=Top Ten of Britain |page=184 |author=Ash, Russell |year=2009 |publisher=Hamlyn Publishing}}</ref> Several versions exist, but they all involve "Earl Beardie" playing cards. However, it was the [[Sabbath in Christianity|sabbath]], and either his hosts refused to play, or a servant advised him to stop. Lord Beardie became so furious that he claimed that he would play until doomsday, or with the [[Devil]] himself, depending on the version. A stranger then appears at the castle and joins Lord Beardie in a game of cards. The stranger is identified with the Devil, who takes Earl Beardie's [[Soul (spirit)|soul]] and, in some versions, condemns the Earl to play cards until doomsday.<ref name=haunted/><ref name="Shand">{{cite web |url=http://www.dundeemessenger.co.uk/myths/ghosts/earl_beardie.htm |title=Earl Beardie - the ghostly Earl of Crawford |work=Dundee Messenger |access-date=2009-08-19 |date=24 September 2007 |author=Shand, William |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924004721/http://www.dundeemessenger.co.uk/myths/ghosts/earl_beardie.htm |archive-date=24 September 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Other traditions===
According to the official website for Glamis Castle, in 1034, [[Malcolm II of Scotland|Malcolm II]] was mortally wounded in a nearby battle and taken to a Royal Hunting Lodge, which sat at the site of the present castle, where he died.{{cn|date=October 2024}}