“The ghastly figure on the gibbet stood black against the sky.
“The ghastly figure on the gibbet stood black against the sky. In the high winds, the bones, wired together, rattled as though in a macabre dance of death. Local people, forced by necessity to go to and fro on the Ballachulish ferry, shuddered and looked away. Many of them thought "there but for the grace of God go I." Government troops guard the corpse of James Stewart, also known as James of the Glens, c. 1698 - November 8, 1752. Stewart was deliberately and wrongfully accused and hanged for being accessory to the murder of Colin Roy Campbell (The Red Fox), a government factor of estates forfeited by pro-Jacobite clans following the Jacobite rising of 1745. After his execution, James' body was left hanging at an elevated and highly visible position at the south end of the Ballachulish Ferry where passers-by were forced to view his rotting corpse. For eighteen months his body remained there as a warning to other clans who may have harboured rebellious intentions