Dion had experienced these herself, and had written a book, Psychic Self-Defence, on how to protect yourself from them.

You’ll only have to do this once—after your accounts are connected, you can sign in using your Ancestry sign in or your Find a Grave sign in. There is also the question of why that cross had been carved and why she just happened to have been found on a fairy mound. Therefore, he pronounced that she could have died at any time from the 17th to the 19th when her body was found. She had noticable scratches and bruises on her feet and, according to some reports(having trouble finding a good source for this) she had several other, deeper gashes spread over her body. Amongst the Scottish kings buried on Iona are King Kenneth I, Donald II, Malcolm I, Duncan I, Macbeth and Donald III.

Some come to pray in the little stone abbey and visit the Reilig Odhrain where the Kings of Scotland lie buried in an earth so sacred it purifies sin. Her body was found on a Fairy Mound on the South of Loch Staonaig, Iona (see map below) in mid November 1929.

The Scotsman, 27th November 1929, said - “This “alien” woman, who dressed in the fashion of the Arts and Crafts movement – with a long cape and hand-woven tunic – settled into the house of someone only known as Mrs MacRae. A large cross had been etched into the turf on the ground with an ornamental knife that was found lying nearby, upon which Netta’s body was sprawled out, dressed in nothing but a thin black cloak. He disputes the whole Mrs McRae character, and says that there is no evidence such a person ever existed. The family she was staying with said she would go into trance-like states, always seemed to have a distant look in her eyes and would sometimes speak in incoherent ramblings.Netta spent most of her days wandering the tiny island alone and spent her nights engaged in various supernatural practices. Netta seemed to show an intense interest in the ancient Christian sites around the island, visiting as many as she could during her long, meandering hikes, and before long she was well-known around the island as being an eccentric weirdo. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Sarah Hapgood and sjhstrangetales.