| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Ghost name "Wraith" | Scotland | The ghost of a person shortly about to die or just dead, which appears to survivors, sometimes at a great distance off. Scotland |
| Spirit name "White Lady" | Scotland | White Lady Of Avenel, a tutelary spirit. Scotland |
| Goddess name "Viradechthis aka Harimella" | Scotland | Goddess of protection. Scotland |
| King name "Urgan" | s | A mortal born and christened, but stolen by the king of the fairies and brought up in elf-land. He was sent to Lord Richard, the husband of Alice Brand, to lay on him the "curse of the sleepless eye" for killing his wife's brother Ethert. When Lord Richard saw the hideous dwarf he crossed himself, but the elf said, "I fear not sign made with a bloody hand." Then forward stepped Alice and made the sign, and the dwarf said if any woman would sign his brow thrice with a cross he should recover his mortal form. Alice signed him thrice, and the elf became "the fairest knight in all Scotland, in whom she recognised her brother Ethert." Scotland |
| Goddess name "Uathach" | Ireland / Scotland | Goddess who trained warriors. One of the mistresses of Cuchulain. Ireland / Scotland |
| Goddess name "Triduana" | Scotland | Goddess of Edinburgh Scotland |
| God name "Somhlth" | Ireland / Scotland / Manx | God who had no corporeal incarnation apart from pure masculine energy. Ireland / Scotland / Manx |
| God name "Shoney" | Scotland | Sea faeries living off the coast of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Originally a single god of the North Sea Ireland / Scotland / Manx |
| Goddess name "Scotia" | Scotland | A bloodthirsty sorceress and a goddess of battle and the slain. Scotland |
| Spirit name "Nuckelavee" | Scotland | A monster of unmixed malignity, never willingly resting from doing evil to mankind. He was a spirit in flesh. His home was the sea; and whatever his means of transit were in that element, when he moved on land he rode a horse as terrible in aspect as himself. Some thought that rider and horse were really one, and that this was the shape of the monster. Nuckelavee's head was like a man's, only ten times larger, and his mouth projected like that of a pig, and was enormously wide. There was not a hair on the monster's body, for the very good reason that he had no skin. Scotland |
| Goddess name "Muireartach" | Scotland | Battle goddess Ireland / Scotland |
| Goddess name "Morgay" | British | Harvest goddess British / Scotland |
| Goddess name "Momu" | Scotland | Goddess of wells and hillsides. Scotland |
| Goddess name "Melusine" | Britain / Scotland | A serpent goddess |
"Mahoun" | Scotland | Name of contempt for Mahomet, a Moslem, a Moor. In Scotland it used to mean devil. |
"Klippe" | Scotland | The local name for a fairy. Forfarshire. Scotland |
| Spirit name "Kelpie" | Scotland | a very bad tempered water spirit with only one eye and that likes to kill humans |
"Hornie" | Scotland | Auld Hornie. The devil, so called in Scotland. The allusion is to the horns with which Satan is generally represented. |
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