The blue men of the Minch, also known as storm kelpies (Scottish Gaelic: na fir ghorma Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [nə fiɾʲ ˈɣɔɾɔmə]), are mythological...

Sgeir Graidach, the foundations of which can still be seen at low tide. The mythological blue men of the Minch live in the area. The Minch Project is a collaboration...

needed] The Kelpie is believed to lure people by their whistle, then ride them into the water and drown them.[citation needed] The blue men of the Minch (also...

Blue Men, or The Blue Men, may refer to: The Blue Men (Playhouse 90), a 1959 television play directed by John Frankenheimer Blue men of the Minch, mythological...

selkies, the wulver, the bean-nighe, and the blue men of the Minch. Cornish mythology English folklore Matter of Britain Welsh folklore Welsh mythology...

form of mascaron or ornamental head, Green Men are frequently found in architectural sculpture on both secular and ecclesiastical buildings in the Western...

growing out of their heads, massive teeth, and occasionally a third eye in the center of the forehead. They are typically depicted with red, blue, black,...

form was that of an old man wearing baggy blue breeches but he also took the form of a white horse, a black pig and a wisp of blue smoke. The family took...

of his men crumbled to dust on dismounting, Herla and his men who did not dismount were trapped on horseback, this being one account of the origin of...

"Blue Blood/" Wilde, Lady (1887). Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland. Ticknor and Company. p. 259. only certain families of historic...

in Scotland (the Scottish wildcat is a population of the European wildcat, which is now absent from elsewhere in the British Isles). The cat-sìth is all...

legendary creature or type of hobgoblin comparable to the boogeyman (or bugaboo or babau or cucuy), and other creatures of folklore, all of which were historically...

mythology of the Solomon Islands Atargatis from Assyrian mythology Blue men of the Minch ("na fir ghorma": Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [nə fiɾʲ ˈɣɔɾɔmə])...

of sexual assault were likely passed off as the actions of incubi. Some authors speculate that rapists may have attributed the rapes of sleeping men and...

"imps of serpents", "imp of hell", "imp of the devil", and so on; and by the 17th century, it came to mean a small demon, a familiar of a witch. The Old...

The púca (Irish for spirit/ghost; plural púcaí), puca (Old English for goblin) pwca, pookah, phouka, puck is a creature of Celtic, English, and Channel...

as the Seelie and Unseelie. In the mid-thirteenth century, Thomas of Cantimpré classified fairies into neptuni of water, incubi who wandered the earth...

took shelter for the night in a lonely shieling or hut. One of the men supplied vocal music while the others began dancing. The men expressed a desire...

"neo-druidism" and Ásatrú. In some elemental magics, the sprite is often believed to be the elemental of air (see also sylph). A water sprite (also called...

turnip. Jack-o'-lanterns are associated with the Halloween holiday. Its name comes from the phenomenon of strange lights flickering over peat bogs, called...

Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. Thumbelina is about...

men is the stereotypical portrayal of extraterrestrials as little humanoid creatures with green skin and sometimes with antennae on their heads. The term...

Amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland, A. Constable, ISBN 9780841479210 Varner, Gary R. (2007), Creatures in the Mist: Little People, Wild Men and Spirit...

with severed heads (skulls) and headless Dullahans, both men and women and nobles and commoners of various occupations. Larry is offered a drink, and when...

The redcap (or powrie) is a type of malevolent, murderous goblin found in folklore of the Anglo-Scottish border region. The redcap is said to inhabit...

(dwelling near the Sun / in the heavenly waters) which watches over the Soma (apparently) for the benefit of the gods and the sacrificers." The gandharva also...

Durham, such as the Cauld Lad of Hylton. "Ghost" in Northern England was pronounced "guest", and the origin is thought to be of the combination burh-ghest...

suggests that she is originally the same being as the völva divine figure Huld and the German Holda. The word hulder is only used of a female; a "male hulder"...

casting blue light and a creature with red burning eyes leaping about. The following morning many marks of cloven hooves were seen outside the house. The couple...

Himerius of Bosto Headless Mule, a character in Brazilian folklore Headless Rider urban legend List of ghosts List of ghost films Headless men "Headless"...