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THE CURSE OF THE PEAR
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The Colstoun Pear was taken from its tree by Sir Hugo de Gifford as a wedding gift for his daughter, Marion (also called Margaret), on her marriage to George Broun of Colstoun.
Sir Hugo said as long as the pear was in safe keeping all would be well with the Broun-Lindsays of Colstoun so the pear was being kept in a silver box.
Lady Elizabeth Mackenzie married into the family. On her wedding night, she dreamed she had eaten the pear. Next morning she bit a piece out of it.
Misfortunes followed: gambling debts grew, farms had to be sold.
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HOMEPAGE 
Fairies & other strange things. 
The Devil 
The Curse of the Pear 