Argyll and Bute Council made national headlines when it increased the price of cremation to £666 - a figure known as the number of the beast, before lowering the rise by a pound.
The number has also been widely associated with evil after reviled occultist and self-styled ‘wickedest man in the world’ Aleister Crowley, who owned Boleskine House on the shores of Loch Ness, from 1899 to 1913, anointed himself The Great Beast 666.
Boleskine was also owned by Led Zeppelin guitaritst Jimmy Page, and was gutted in a devastating fire in 2015.