es associated with him
extraordinarily "wild"; still, as the scenes of not a few of them are
laid at places in the Ochils district, and, accordingly, "Near the
Pictish Capital," it may not be inappropriate if a few of them are
rehearsed here.[24]

At Tuligbotuan (Tullybody) the Devil, having entered into a poor man,
filled him with an insatiable appetite. He ate and ate, and still the
wolf within craved for more. Though he consumed a cow and a calf, a
sheep and a lamb, all was of no avail. At length, when the family were
eaten "out of house and hall," his relatives take him to S. Serf, who
clapped his thumb[25] into the man's mouth, which immediately satisfied
him--the Devil flying out of him with a howl.

At Alveth (Alvah) Servanus and his company lodged, on one occasion, at
the house of a very poor man, who had nothing to put before them but his
one pig. It was forthwith cut up and eaten, the bones, however, being
carefully preserved from being broken. Next morning, to the great
delight and surprise of the poor man, the pig came grunting to the door,
restored to flesh, and life by the Saint.

At Atheren (Airthrey) a robber, one night, broke into S. Serf's cell,
and, finding a sheep roasted in his larder, comfortably sat down and
entirely consumed it. Next day Servanus met the fellow and charged him
with the robbery. The man swore innocence, but it was of no use; he was
instantly convicted, for the wether bleated in his bowels.

At Dunning, S. Serf is said to have healed three blind, three lame, and
three deaf men. But his great feat here was killing the dragon. (Had no
princes or knights come to Forteviot as yet, that such work was left to
the priest?) The story, as given in the Marsh M.S., is as follows:--"At
that time the Saint was in his cell at Dunning (_in cella Dunenensi_),
and news was brought to him that a dragon, great and terrible, and very
loathsome (_deterrimus_), was coming into his township (_civitatem
suam_), whose aspect no mortal could suffer. Saint Servanus, however,
coming out to meet it, and taking his staff in his right hand, fought
with the dragon in a certain valley, and killed it. From that day,
moreover, that valley was called the Valley of the Dragon."[26]

The circumstances connected with the Saint's death and burial are
touchingly described. The holy man, after many miracles, after divers
works, after founding many churches in Christ, when his peace had been
given to his br