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'''Gigelorum''' (or '''Giol-Daoram''') is a creature of Scottish folklore. [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

'''Cirein crôin''' is a sea serpent in Scottish Mythology. It is believed to be the largest of all living and legendary creatures cap [[Category:Scottish mythology]]

'''Caoineag''' (konyack) is a Scottish spirit, similar or close to the Banshee. Within Celtic mythology, she is a variant of the Bean-Nighe, known as the 'Washer at the Ford' and

In Scottish mythology, '''Ashrays''', ''Asrais'' or ''Water Lovers'', are completely translucent [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

'''Cirein Cròin''' is a sea serpent from Scottish highland folklore. Cirein Cròin may be translated from the Scottish Gaelic as "Grey Crest" but it is also known as '''Curtag Mhòr a' Chuain'''

...nd that ''worry'', in the sense of to vex or torment, is possibly from the Scottish Gaelic ''uaire'' meaning stormy. [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

In Scottish folklore the '''Ghillie Dhu''' or '''Gille Dubh''' is a solitary elf, guard ''Gille Dubh'' translates from Scottish Gaelic as ''dark haired lad''.

The '''Ceasg''' or '''Maighdean na Tuinne''' ('maiden of the wave') is a Scottish mermaid of the Highlands. [[Category:Scottish mythology]]

...d to be the water form taken by the monstrous '''[[Cailleach]] Bheur''' of Scottish Gaelic tradition, known in the 'Duan na Muileartaich'. [[Category:Scottish mythology]]

...deed the name "làbh-allan" is also used for a water shrew or water vole in Scottish Gaelic. It was however, reportedly larger than a rat, very noxious, and liv ...sdale in the county, and it is also mentioned in the work of Rob Donn, the Scottish Gaelic poet from Sutherland.

...bh Uisge''' ( "water-bull" in Gaelic) is a spectral water-bull in Scottish mythology. [[Category:Scottish mythology]]

The '''Grey Dog of Meoble''' is a gigantic, shaggy-haired Scottish deerhound whose preternatural appearances are said to presage death to memb [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

...''' (also spelled Fachan or Fachin) is a creature with only half a body in Scottish and Scots-Irish folklore. [[Category: Irish mythology]]

'''Wild Haggis''' is a fictional creature said to be native to the Scottish Highlands. [[Category:Scottish mythology]]

The word is a Scottish Gaelic term for "old man" although historically it was used as a pejorative [[Category:Scottish mythology]]

The '''gruagach''' is a Scottish [[brownie]]. [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

...s to Argyllshire, Skye and some of the neighbouring islands. Within Celtic mythology, she is a variant of the Bean-Nighe, known as the 'Washer at the Ford' and Caointeach was attached to the Scottish clans of Macmillans, Mathisons, Kellys, Mackays, Macfarlanes, Shaws and Cur

In Irish mythology the '''aos sí''' (older form, aes sídhe) are a powerful, supernatural rac ...f the mounds". Also referred to in Irish as the '''daoine sídhe''', and in Scottish Gaelic as the '''daoine sìth''' or '''daoine sìdh'''. They are variously

Loch-na-Bèiste is Scottish Gaelic for ''loch of the beast'', beast often being used for a loch monster [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

The '''each uisge''' or '''each uisce, each uisge, aughisky''' is a Scottish Highland Water Horse. The Scottish Gaelic "each uisge" (pronounced "ech-ooshkya") has endured several angliciz

The '''boobrie''' is a mythical giant water bird of Scottish Highlands folklore that is generally only encountered by sailors and passen [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

The '''Ly Erg''' is a small Scottish faerie that can be found on lonely roadsides near water. [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

...who reigned in the waters of the North Sea in the folklore of the ancient Scottish fishermen. [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

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'''.

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

Pale greyish in color and similar to the Scottish Gaelic [[each uisge]] yet not as dangerous or greedy. Still, it may occasio [[Category:Irish mythology]]

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

*In Scottish folklore the '''Sluagh''' were originally part of the [[Seelie]] Court, the ...tegory:Celtic mythology]] [[Category:Scottish mythology]] [[Category:Irish mythology]] [[Category:Ghosts]]

...mportance. It is thought that it was either an important figure in Pictish mythology, and/or a political symbol. [[Category:Celtic mythology]]

The Scottish use the name 'Fuath' to refer to generic water spirits who inhabit the sea, [[Category: Celtic mythology]]

...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

...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

The '''Shellycoat''' is a Scottish bogeyman who haunts the rivers and streams. Jacob Grimm stated in his '''Deutsche Mythologie''' that the Scottish goblin Shellycoat is one and the same as the German Schellenrock, that is b

...h-iski) is the Irish Water-horse, very much like the [[each uisge]] of the Scottish Highlands. The aughisky belongs to the same family of water horses as the Scottish [[each uisge]]and bears some relationship with the Welsh [[ceffyl dwfr]]. I

Jacob Grimm stated in his ''Deutsche Mythologie'' that the Scottish goblin [[Shellycoat]] is one and the same as the German '''Schellenrock''', ...007, ISBN 978-3-86539-143-8. English version at Northvegr Grimm's Teutonic Mythology Translation Project. Available online at http://www.northvegr.org/lore/grim

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The '''glaistig''' or '''green lady''' is a solitary water fairy of the Scottish Highlands. [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

Called in Scottish Gaelic ''oiteag sluaigh'', "the people's puff of wind". It is also occasion [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

It belongs to the same family of water horses as the Scottish [[each uisge]] and the [[aughisky]] and bears some relationship with the We [[Category:Irish mythology]]

'''Black Annis''' is a Scottish/English legendary blue-faced hag who lives in a cave in the Dane Hills, Lei *In his run on Doom Patrol, Scottish comics writer Grant Morrison made a monstrous figure with the same name one

...Sidhe''', '''Bavanshee''', '''Baavan Shee''' or '''The White Woman of the Scottish Highlands''', is a fairy [[Vampire]] who appears to men taking a the form o ...s ''baobhan sith'' (pronounced baa'-van shee) stand for ''fairy woman'' in Scottish Gaelic.

The '''pech''' were a type of gnome-like creatures in Scottish mythology. [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

In [[:Category:Celtic mythology|Celtic mythology]], a '''boggart''' (or ''bogart'', ''bogan'', ''[[bogle]]'' or ''boggle'') Scottish lore.

O'Donnell<ref>O'Donnell, Elliot. ''Scottish Ghost Stories'' (Kegan Paul Trench Trubner; 1911) ASIN B0014C5VDE</ref> tel *Underwood, Peter. ''Gazetteer of Scottish and Irish Ghosts'' (Souvenir Press; May 1973) ISBN 0-2856-2089-4

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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

In Basque mythology, '''Sugaar''' (other names: '''Sugar, Sugoi, Maju''') is the male half of a * There is one myth in which he seduces a Scottish princess in the village of Mundaka to father the mythical first Lord of Bis

Often considered the Irish version of Scottish version of female [[Vampire|vampires]] and [[succubus|succubi]] (as they lu *Scottish [[Baobhan Sith]]

...ythological horse in Scandinavian folklore. It has a close parallel in the Scottish [[kelpie]]. [[Category:Scandinavian mythology]]

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...n much the same way as one could command a selkie (one of the seal folk of Scottish and Irish legend) if one gained her skin. [[Category: English mythology]]

...habited the summit cairn of Ben MacDhui, one of the six great peaks of the Scottish Cairngorm Mountains. [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

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...he other in order to exist on mountainsides is popular: others include the Scottish Wild Haggis, the Sidehill Dodge Hodag, the French Dahu, the Rackabore. A si [[Category: Anglo-Saxon mythology]]

[[Category:English mythology]] [[Category:Scottish mythology]]

...istian context: examples of such [[:Category:Christian mythology|Christian mythology]] are the themes woven round [[Saint George]] or [[Saint Christopher]]. In **[[Mythology|Myth]]

In [[:Category:Irish mythology|Irish]] and Scottish mythology [[Cailleach]] was a goddess concerned with creation, harvest, and the under [[Category: European mythology]]

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...'''Urisk''' Scots (Lowland Scots) or ''ùruisg''/''brùnaidh''/''gruagach'' (Scottish Gaelic) is a legendary kind of elf popular in folklore around Scotland and

...cotland after the battle of the Standard in 1138,where it was borne as the Scottish royal standard. A dragon standard was taken on the Third Crusade by Richard [[Category: Welsh mythology]]

In Irish and Scottish mythology [[Cailleach]] was a goddess concerned with creation, harvest, and the under

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.

...vee''' (or '''Nuckalavee''') 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,

...larised in English literature around the 19th century through the works of Scottish poets like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. [[Category:European mythology]]

...are the Welsh and Cornish equivalent of Irish leprechauns and English and Scottish brownies. Other put forward that the origin of knockers probably comes from early Welsh mythology, in which they may have been the pre-Brythonic inhabitants of the west of B

In Cornwall she is said to have long black teeth and in Scottish islands very long breasts. Banshees were common in Irish and Scottish folk stories such as those written down by Herminie T. Kavanagh. They enjoy

...capable of mischief, neither entirely good nor completely evil, unlike the Scottish division into Seelie and Unseelie. In their benevolent capacity they might, *MacKillop, James (1998). ''Dictionary of Celtic Mythology''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 368. ISBN 0192801201.

...'powrie'', is a type of malevolent murderous [[goblin]] found in Irish and Scottish folklore. [[Category:English mythology]]

In Orkney mythology, the '''Mester Stoor Worm''' is a malevolent dragon-like creature. [[Category: Scottish mythology]]

...dwf''' is the Welsh Water-horse, very much like the [[each uisgue]] of the Scottish Highlands. [[Category:Welsh mythology]]

Sir Walter Scott told a Melusine tale in ''Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border'' (1802 -1803) confident that ...com/avalonianchurch/scotttamlin.html Sir Walter Scott, ''Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border''] (e-text)

*Scottish [[Baobhan Sith]] *Ann Martha and Myers Dorothy, ‘’Goddesses In World Mythology’’

...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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...of death (Roman equivalent: [[Mors]]), as well as a minor figure in Greek mythology. According to mythology, Thanatos could occasionally be outwitted, a feat that [[Sisyphus]] twice a

...he royal arms of Scotland and the United Kingdom: two unicorns support the Scottish arms; a lion and a unicorn support the UK arms. In the UK Royal arms, the l The unicorn is an archetypal monster, present both in eastern and western mythology. In the [[Bible]], [[God]] is said to have the strength of a unicorn. [Num

...''') is a shapeshifter creature in Faroese, Irish, Icelandic, and Scottish mythology. ...ludes to the Selkie legend. At least one tale about selkies is included in Scottish Folk Tales by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Terry Farley, known for her books about

...he abode of the ''Álfar'' '[[Elves]]' in [[:Category:Norse mythology|Norse mythology]] and appears also in northern English ballads under the forms '''Elfhame'' In several Scottish and English ballads about the [[fairy|fairies]] and their lore, the realm o

===Norse/Germanic mythology=== In [[:Category:Norse mythology|Norse mythology]], '''Svartálfar''' ("Swartelves" or "[[black elves]]"), sometimes conside

...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 ...or simply missing its second eye. Mercury was well-read and quite a fan of mythology and fairy-tales, so it is quite reasonable to assume the lyric is deliberat

...ngs, derived from one of the most famed example: the ''gigantes'' of Greek mythology. ==Giants in Greek Mythology==

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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 ...he world, many native tales of unknown animals were initially dismissed as mythology or superstition by western scientists, but were later proven to have a real

An '''elf''' (pl. ''elves'') is a creature of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of minor nature and fertili ...ively, a connection to the ''[[Rbhus]]'', semi-divine craftsmen in Indian mythology, has also been suggested. Originally ''ælf''/''elf'' and it's plural ''æl

...as Celtic, namely the hag-like [[Cailleach]] figure of Irish and Scottish mythology. This theory was originally put forward by the likes of Margaret Murray and [[Category:Irish mythology]][[Category:English mythology]][[Category:Fertility]][[Category:Nature spirits]]

==Akkadian mythology== ...a witch who steals children, similar to the Breton [[Korrigan]], in Greek mythology described as a Libyan queen who mated with [[Zeus]]. After Zeus abandoned L

...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 ..., and wandered around graveyards at night. The "draugr" of medieval Norse mythology were also believed to be the corpses of warriors returned from the dead to

...rtain sub-races. Those fae numbered among the goblin subraces, include the Scottish Trows, English Spriggans, Welsh Knockers, Cornish Knockers, German Kobolds ...and nearly always wearing a stocking cap, owing more in appearance to the scottish [[redcap]] than the traditional Tolkien goblin. They also occasionally appe

...have affectionately referred to the animal by the diminutive '''Nessie''' (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag) since the 1950s. ...Nessie to be added to a British register of officially protected wildlife. Scottish politician Nicholas Fairbairn pointed out that the name was an anagram for

...]] or supernatural being that is found in the legends, [[folklore]], and [[mythology]] of many different cultures. They are generally humanoid in their appearan ...ly beings with mystical abilities (either the [[elves]] (or equivalent) in mythology or their insect-winged, floral descendants in English folklore), while "fae

* [http://scotcats.online.fr/abc/index.html Scottish Big Cat Trust] [[Category: English mythology]]