The Waater Mannie: Neil Mutch of Foggie (MUT)

Memories and stories from Neil's life told in his own words and brought together by William G.Johnston.

Publisher: Northern Books (from Famedram)

Synopsis

Neil Mutch is known throughout the North of Scotland for his uncanny ability for find water.

Often he is called in by businesses whose lifeblood is water, when other, more conventional means of finding it have failed.

But then the Waater Mannie, as Neil is known, is much more than that.

This book tells the tale of an extraordinary life lived close to the soil he has spent his life working.

It follows the young Neil leaving school at the age of fourteen and setting out on the arduous journey from the feeing market, the single man's bothy and the horseman to ownership of his own farm and a position of high regard in the rural community.

it is a story full of pathos and humor told with a zest for life that has been retained well beyond the allotted three score years and ten.

In this book Neil reveals gifts that extend beyond a way with animals, and a feel for nature to a mastery of the art of divining and the ability to bring relief to those who are suffering, bother physically and mentally.