The '''boobrie''' is a mythical giant water bird of Scottish Highlands folklore that is generally only encountered by sailors and passen
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The '''Ly Erg''' is a small Scottish faerie that can be found on lonely roadsides near water.
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...who reigned in the waters of the North Sea in the folklore of the ancient Scottish fishermen.
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In Irish mythology, '''Oilliphéist''' was a dragon-like monster.
...ish oll, "great", and péist, "worm, fabulous beast, monster, reptile". The Scottish Gaelic variant is called '''Uilepheist'''.
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The '''Cusith''', or '''Cu Sìth''' is an enormous fairy hound of the Scottish Highlands.
...may be derived from the green color often worn by Celtic fairies. In Irish mythology the Cu Sith was said to be an immense, coal black hound with glowing or bur
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Pale greyish in color and similar to the Scottish Gaelic [[each uisge]] yet not as dangerous or greedy. Still, it may occasio
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The '''Linton Worm '''is a mythical beast referred to in a Scottish borders legend dating back to the 12th century.
...nton Hill, a spot still known as the "Worm’s Den", in Roxburghshire on the Scottish borders. Emerging from its lair at dusk and dawn to ravage the countryside,
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...ìth''' or '''Cat Sídhe''' is a monstrous fairy cat from Scottish and Irish mythology.
The root words ''Cait'' (meaning ''cat'' in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic) and [[Sidhe]], that stands for faery folk and/or other otherworldly
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'''Morag''' or '''Mòrag''' (Scottish Gaelic) is a loch monster reported to live in Loch Morar, Scotland.
...is a pun on the name of the lake in which the creatures lives, and of the Scottish female name, "Morag".
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Every stream in Breadalbane had an ùruisg once according to Watson the Scottish place name expert, and their king was Peallaidh. (Peallaidh's name is prese
...distinguishes between the English brownie, which lived in houses, and the Scottish ùruisg or urisk, which lived outside in streams and waterfalls and was les
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*In Scottish folklore the '''Sluagh''' were originally part of the [[Seelie]] Court, the
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...mportance. It is thought that it was either an important figure in Pictish mythology, and/or a political symbol.
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The Scottish use the name 'Fuath' to refer to generic water spirits who inhabit the sea,
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...yhyraeth''', also spelled as '''cyheuraeth''' is a ghostly spirit in Welsh mythology.
Like the Irish [[banshee]]and the Scottish [[Cailleach]], to which the cyhyraeth and the Gwrach y Rhibyn are closely r
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...illy Blynde, Billie Blin''', or '''Belly Blin''' is an English and Lowland Scottish household spirit, similar to the [[brownie]].
...lind is probably a reminiscence of the god Woden or [[Odin]] from Germanic mythology, and later evolved into ''Blind Harie'', the "blind man of the game" in Sc
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