The Drumdurno or Maiden Stone, to be found standing beside a road near the hamlet of Drumdurno, near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Tradition tells of a Drumdurno maiden who bet a stranger she could bake a "firlot" (an old Scottish measure) of meal before he could forge a path to the top of Bennachie, a nearby mountain. As usual, the 'stranger' was the Devil in disguise, who, having completed the path in time, returned to chase after the fleeing maiden. As he caught her, she was turned to stone; the triangular chunk missing from the side of the stone supposedly marks where he reached out and grabbed her shoulder.
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The Drumdurno or Maiden Stone, to be found standing beside a road near the hamlet of Drumdurno in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Tradition tells of a Drumdurno maiden who bet a stranger she could bake a "firlot" (an old Scottish measure) of