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Earth Spirits:
1. Henkies: nickname given to Shetland Trows. They are small, grotesque
people who limp (or henk) when they walk. Their music is captivating but
their dancing is odd -- they clasp their hands around their knees. They
conjure up storms by their restlessness. The weather is only fine when
they are asleep.
2. The Red Caps: Small dwarfs with red eyes and red caps. The Red Caps'
main occupation is colouring their caps, which they dye with human blood.
As soon as the blood dries and the colour fades, the Red Caps look for
new victims. They also foretell disasters by making a loud noise like
the beating of flax.
3. Boggie: Although the try to move with attempted stealth, their clumsiness
betrays their presence with thumps, creaks and scuffles.
4. The Little Washer of Sorrow: she is sometimes called the Little Washer
at the Ford. She can be heard wailing by the riverside as she washes the
clothes of the man destined for death.
5. Baisd Bheulach : A shapeshifting demon who haunted the Odail Pass on
the Isle of Skye. Sometimes they take the shape of sheep. Its howls can
be heard in the night.
6. Fairie Hunters: From the mountains, mixing with the tramp of horses,
the music of the horn, and the cheering of the huntsmen, you can hear
a crew of thirteen fairy hunters, dressed in green. The silver bosses
of their bridles jingle in the night breeze
7. Trooping Fairies: Scottish elves who dance in groups. You know they
are approaching by the sound of their little bells.
8. Fear Liath More: Fear Liath More or the Gray Man, is a creature said
to have inhabited the vicinity of the summit cairn of Ben MacDhui, one
of the six peaks of the Scottish Cairmgorm Mountains. The Gray Man is
identified as a presence encountered both physically and psychically,
as well as a high pitched sound, or the Singing as it is sometimes called.
Water
Spirits:
1. Selkies: The male selkies cause storms and turbulence to wreck ships
and overturn the boats of seal hunters and fishermen. Their strength comes
from the small bell shaped water fungus they eat.
2. Dunters: thought to come from the sea, Dunters haunt the old peel towers
and border keeps on the Scotch-English border. Their presence is known
by their frequent thumping noise. It is said that when the thumping noise
grows louder it is an omen of death or misfortune. (Often related to English
activity.)
3. The Blue Men of the Minch : They live in caves under the waters of
the Minch, the channel through the "Charmed Islands" of the
Hebrides. the channel is also called the "Current of Destruction,"
because they say the Blue Men stir up the waves by their incessant swimming.
The Blue Men may attack ships or sailors who have mistreated the Selkies
and other Seafolk.
4. Each-Uisge - the name for the Highland supernatural water horse, supposedly
the most dangerous of the Scottish water dwelling creatures. The Each
Uisge had the ability to shape shift, and could disguise itself as a fine
horse or pony. If a man was to mount the horse, it would immediately set
off into the deepest part of the loch, the rider being unable to free
himself because of the adhesive qualities of the creature's skin. Once
deep underwater, the unfortunate victim would drown, and be devoured completely
apart from the liver, which would float ashore, a sure sign that the water
horse had claimed another victim. Warned travelers listen for the only
sound which betrays that this "horse" is in the vicinity: the
rattling of the chains with which the spirit is covered.
5. Nuckelavee : The most gruesome monster of them all. A horrible monster
who came out of the sea, half-man and half-horse, with a breath like pestilence
and no skin on its body, leaving its inner workings oozing and on display.
The only security from it was that it could not face the sound or the
sight of running water. He makes an awful roaring sound that can be hear
miles away.

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