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According to a local account it is here in Drumelzier, that Merlin, was imprisoned inside a riverbank tree by the enchantress Morgan le Fay. This may be a little fanciful.
Another account has it that Merlin was baptised and thus converted to Christianity by Saint Kentigern at the altar stone near the village and is said to have died through his ‘three deaths’ here. Legend has it that he prophesied his own death of falling, drowning and stabbing. It is said that he was chased off a cliff by shepherds where he tripped and fell, impaled himself on a fishing rod on the sea bed and died with his head under the water. Perhaps a more likely explanation is that he was caught up in some high level political skulduggery and was assassinated. His grave is considered to be located a little below the churchyard at the side of the Powsail Burn.
Another prophecy states:
“When Tweed and Powsail meet at Merlin’s grave, Scotland and England shall one monarch have”.
The very day that James VI of Scotland and I of England was crowned the prophecy was fulfilled, with the River Tweed bursting its banks and meeting with the Powsail Burn at Merlin’s Grave, something it had not done before and has not done since.
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