John Napier seems to have been an absolute gem of a person. > Another act which Napier is reported to have done, which may have seemed mystical to the locals,

John Napier seems to have been an absolute gem of a person. > Another act which Napier is reported to have done, which may have seemed mystical to the locals, was when Napier removed the pigeons from his estate, since they were eating his grain. Napier caught the pigeons by strewing grain laced with alcohol throughout the field, and then capturing the pigeons once they were too drunk to fly away.