Young Cornish servant girl endowed with the power to heal and prophetise after being visited by fairies
Banshee
A female spirit in Irish and Scottish folklore whose wailing voice is heard before the death of a member of the family to which she is attached.
Bluecap
Brownie or spirit who worked in the mines of Northern England pushing wagons out of the mines, usually appearing as a blue light.
Brocken spectre
Optical illusion in which the apparently greatly magnified shadow of an observer, when projected onto a surrounding mist, interferes with the observer’s depth perception.
Church grim
Spirit that protects graveyards from witches and the Devil, usually appearing as a black dog.
Corpse roads
Roads that once provided the means of transporting the dead to churchyards for burial.
Devil’s door
Blocked-up door in the north wall of a church, once believed to have been an escape route for the Devil when he left a child as a result of the sacrament of baptism.
Dunter
Spirits also known as powries, said to haunt the peel towers and castles of the Scottish border with England.
Emic and etic
Emic and etic are terms used to describe two different kinds of field research in a wide field of studies, from the view of the insider or the observer respectively.
Ernest W. Marwick
Scottish writer, folklorist and antiquarian particularly noted for his texts on Orkney folklore and history