Powrie

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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

Apparition in the form of a double of a living person, often a portent of death.

Mermaid of Zennor

Mermaid who enticed a chorister from the local parish church to live with her in the sea.

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.

Jinney Bingham, Mother Damnable

17th-century woman also known as Mother Red Cap and the Shrew of Kentish Town, suspected of being a witch, a murderer and poisoner.

Thomas Lyon-Bowes, Master of Glamis (born 1821)

The official record states that Thomas Lyon-Bowes died shortly after his birth, but rumours have circulated that he was born horribly deformed and raised in a secret room in Glamis Castle, the so-called Monster of Glamis.