Robert Kirk
Church of Scotland minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist.
Corpse roads
Corpse roads once provided the means of transporting the dead to churchyards for burial.
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
A brownie or spirit who worked in the mines of Northern England pushing wagons out of the mines, usually appearing as a blue light.
Waff
Redirected to Fetch.
Swarth
Redirected to Fetch.
Powrie
Redirected to Dunter.
Dunter
Spirits also known as powries, said to haunt the peel towers and castles of the Scottish border with England.
Redcap
Evil fairies said to live in the peel towers and castles of the Scottish border with England.
Fetch
An apparition in the form of a double of a living person, often a portent of death.