HAIL FELLOW
In March 1707, midway through morning mass in the parish church of St Coultha, a tiny village near Stornaway in Scotland’s Western Isles, a gigantic hailstone smashed through a window at the back of the church, and struck the unfortunate priest—noted only in the parish records as a Father JR Robertson—on the side of the head. The poor padre promptly collapsed to the floor, with a considerable wound to the side of his head, and was rushed back to his quarters to recover. Alas,