A '''Merrow''' or '''Murrough''' (Galloway) is the Scottish and Irish Gaelic equivalent of the mermaid and mermen of other cultures.
...ered in the year 887 A.D. there is a curious tale of a mermaid cast on the Scottish coast - Alba - She was 195 feet in length and had hair 18 feet long, her fi
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The '''kelpie''' is a supernatural shape-shifting water horse from Celtic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland and Ireland.
...ar creature was called the ''Shoopiltee''. It also appears in Scandinavian folklore where it is known by the name '''Bäckahästen''', the ''brook horse''.
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...a possible source may have been a simple misunderstanding. A 17th century Scottish immigrant's letter to his relatives referring "furried animals and fish" be
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'''Melusine''' (or '''Melusina''') is a figure of European [[legend]]s and [[folklore]], a feminine spirit of fresh waters in sacred springs and rivers.
Sir Walter Scott told a Melusine tale in ''Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border'' (1802 -1803) confident that
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...alavee''') is an hybrid fairy creature from the Northern Scottish (Orkney) folklore from the Fuath family.
Nuckelavee was one of the most terrible and feared creatures of Scottish foklore. It is sometimes mentioned as an '''Unseelie''', a malignant fairy,
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The Scottish post-rock band Mogwai is named after the creatures who make an appearance i
*Qiguang Zhao, "Chinese Mythology in the Context of Hydraulic Society," Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 48, No. 2 (1989), pp. 231-246.
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...idh''/''gruagach'' (Scottish Gaelic) is a legendary kind of elf popular in folklore around Scotland and England (especially the north).
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..., is a type of malevolent murderous [[goblin]] found in Irish and Scottish folklore.
...ich falls over the top of their eyes. Although far cuter than the original folklore, the redcaps are still as vicious, maintaining an annoyance unparalleled by
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...ockers''' are a variety of kobolds that live in mines in Welsh and Cornish folklore.
...are the Welsh and Cornish equivalent of Irish leprechauns and English and Scottish brownies.
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...rish and Scottish mythology, the '''Cailleach''' (Irish plural cailleacha, Scottish Gaelic plural cailleachan) is a powerful hag often identified to a deity or
...ogical figures in both Scotland and Ireland. The word cailleach (in modern Scottish Gaelic, 'old wife, nun') comes from the Old Irish caillech, 'veiled one', w
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...' (Welsh: "the Fair Folk") are elves similar to [[Bendith y Mamau]] in the folklore of Wales.
...capable of mischief, neither entirely good nor completely evil, unlike the Scottish division into Seelie and Unseelie. In their benevolent capacity they might,
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In Irish folklore, the '''Bean Sidhe''' ("woman of the mounds") is a spirit or fairy who pres
In Cornwall she is said to have long black teeth and in Scottish islands very long breasts.
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In folklore and fairy tales, an '''ogre''' (feminine: ogress) are large humanoid creatu
...es ''Shrek'' is an ogre. Shrek is voiced by Mike Myers, using a cartoonish Scottish accent. Shrek is not a stereotypically hostile ogre. He is not a villain, b
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...''selchie''') is a shapeshifter creature in Faroese, Irish, Icelandic, and Scottish mythology.
*Seal changelings similar to the selkie exist in the folklore of many cultures. A corresponding creature existed in Swedish legend, and t
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...hat they are related to the '''[[Trowe]]''' and '''[[Drow]]''' of Scottish folklore, if not direct precursors.
===British Isles folklore===
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Gog and Magog are usually considered to be giants, and are also found in the folklore of Britain.
*In folklore from all over Europe, giants were believed to have built the remains of pre
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'''Habetrot''' (also ''Habitrot, Habtrot, Habbitrot'') is a figure in folklore of the Border counties of Northern England and Lowland Scotland, associated
According to the folklore of the borders, it was considered unlucky to step upon "unchristened ground
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...'In the Wake of Sea Serpents'') attributes coinage of the term to the late Scottish explorer and adventurer Ivan T. Sanderson. Heuvelmans' 1955 book, ''On The
...ts have demonstrated that some creatures of [[mythology]], legend or local folklore were rooted in real animals or phenomena. Thus, cryptozoologists hold that
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In 1937, while researching [[folklore]] in Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of Felicia Felix-Mentor
...disorders, which are then later misinterpreted as a return from the dead. Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing further highlighted the link between social and cu
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...earance of beings etymologically related to ''álfar'' in earlier and later folklore strongly suggests that the belief in elves was common among all the Germani
...r blóts it probably included the offering of foods, and later Scandinavian folklore retained a tradition of sacrificing treats to the elves (see below). From t
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