Black Dwarf (personage)

In 1762 he moved to a cottage in the grounds of Woodhouse Farm near Peebles, built by Sir James Naesmyth of Posso.

[2] He eventually settled in a stone cottage on the banks of Manor Water near the town of Peebles, Scotland.

The superstitious locals feared he could cast the evil eye on them, blamed him for any problems with their livestock, and generally avoided him.

[1] Sources described him as being irritable and having a shrill, dissonant laugh, but he is also described as an intellectual who enjoyed reading Milton's Paradise Lost and ballads by William Shenstone.

[1] He died in his cottage in 1811 and was buried in the parish churchyard at Kirkton Manor slightly south-west of Peebles.