'''Gigelorum''' (or '''Giol-Daoram''') is a creature of Scottish folklore.
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'''Cirein crôin''' is a sea serpent in Scottish Mythology. It is believed to be the largest of all living and legendary creatures cap
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'''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
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In Scottish mythology, '''Ashrays''', ''Asrais'' or ''Water Lovers'', are completely translucent
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'''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'''
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...nd that ''worry'', in the sense of to vex or torment, is possibly from the Scottish Gaelic ''uaire'' meaning stormy.
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In Scottish folklore the '''Ghillie Dhu''' or '''Gille Dubh''' is a solitary elf, guard
''Gille Dubh'' translates from Scottish Gaelic as ''dark haired lad''.
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The '''Ceasg''' or '''Maighdean na Tuinne''' ('maiden of the wave') is a Scottish mermaid of the Highlands.
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...d to be the water form taken by the monstrous '''[[Cailleach]] Bheur''' of Scottish Gaelic tradition, known in the 'Duan na Muileartaich'.
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...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.
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...bh Uisge''' ( "water-bull" in Gaelic) is a spectral water-bull in Scottish mythology.
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The '''Grey Dog of Meoble''' is a gigantic, shaggy-haired Scottish deerhound whose preternatural appearances are said to presage death to memb
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...''' (also spelled Fachan or Fachin) is a creature with only half a body in Scottish and Scots-Irish folklore.
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'''Wild Haggis''' is a fictional creature said to be native to the Scottish Highlands.
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The word is a Scottish Gaelic term for "old man" although historically it was used as a pejorative
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The '''gruagach''' is a Scottish [[brownie]].
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...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
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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
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Loch-na-Bèiste is Scottish Gaelic for ''loch of the beast'', beast often being used for a loch monster
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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
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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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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
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...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
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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.
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Called in Scottish Gaelic ''oiteag sluaigh'', "the people's puff of wind". It is also occasion
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It belongs to the same family of water horses as the Scottish [[each uisge]] and the [[aughisky]] and bears some relationship with the We
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'''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
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...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.
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The '''pech''' were a type of gnome-like creatures in Scottish mythology.
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