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Category Archives: Mythical & legendary creatures

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Dunter

Dec 4, 2020Eric CorbettFolklore & folklorists, Mythical & legendary creaturesNot on Wikipedia

Spirits also known as powries, said to haunt the peel towers and castles of the Scottish border with England.

Redcap

Dec 3, 2020Eric CorbettFolklore & folklorists, Mythical & legendary creaturesBetter than Wikipedia

Evil fairies said to live in the peel towers and castles of the Scottish border with England.

Fetch

Sep 4, 2020Eric CorbettFolklore & folklorists, Mythical & legendary creaturesBetter than Wikipedia

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

Fachan

Aug 19, 2020Eric CorbettMythical & legendary creatures

Monstrous creature of the Scottish Highlands.

Centicore

Aug 3, 2020Eric CorbettMythical & legendary creaturesRedirect

Redirected to Yale (mythical creature).

Yale (mythical creature)

Aug 3, 2020Eric CorbettMythical & legendary creaturesBetter than Wikipedia

Heraldic beast whose meaning is “proud defence”. Although it has never been identified with a living or extinct creature, it may be based on descriptions of Indian water buffalos.

Grindylow

Aug 2, 2020Eric CorbettMythical & legendary creaturesBetter than Wikipedia

Malignant Yorkshire water spirit said to lurk in stagnant pools, dragging down into the water those children who venture too close.

Incubus

Jan 4, 2020Eric CorbettMythical & legendary creatures

Demon in male form that seeks to have sexual intercourse with a sleeping woman.

Sooterkin

Jun 23, 2019Eric CorbettMedical history, Mythical & legendary creatures

Imaginary kind of afterbirth in the form of an “evil-looking little animal” especially attributed to Dutch women.

Peg Powler

Apr 18, 2019Eric CorbettMythical & legendary creatures

Evil spirit of the River Tees in northeastern England, said to drag children who ventured too close the water’s edge to their deaths.

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