| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| 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 "Cerridwen" | Welsh / Scotland | moon Goddess, Grain Goddess. Welsh Bards called themselves Cerddorion (sons of Cerridwen). Welsh / Scotland |
| Goddess name "Cerridwen" | Wales / Scotland | A moon, grain, education & healing goddess |
| God name "Ard Greimme" | Scotland | Father of the famed warrioress sister Aife and Scathach. Once a Sun God. Ireland, Scotland |
"Ard Greimme" | Scotland | Means "high power" or "High Sun";. He is the father of the warrioress sisters Aife and Scathach Ireland / Scotland |
"Bahr Geist" | Scotland | A banshee or grey-spectre. Scotland |
| Angel name "Blue Men" | Scotland | The fallen angels were driven out of Paradise in three divisions, one became the Fairies of the land, one the Blue Men in the sea and one the Nimble Men . . . or Merry Dancers of the sky. Campbell. Superstitions of Scotland. |
| Spirit name "Bodachs" | Scotland | Malicious house spirits of the Scottish Highlands in the form of a shriveled old man who lives up the chimney in the daytime and comes out at night to punish naughty children. Scotland |
| Ghost name "Bogeyman" | Scotland | Boogyman, or bogyman, is a legendary ghost-like monster often believed in by children. The bogeyman has no specific appearance. The term bogeyman is also used metaphorically to mean a person or thing of which someone else has an irrational fear. |
| Spirit name "Boggart" | Scotland | A local hobgoblin or spirit. Scotland |
"Bogles" | Scotland | A form of Goblin with a very nasty temperament. |
"Brown Man Of The Muirs" | Scotland | Brown Man Of The Muirs, the protector of wild animals. Scotland |
"Brownie" | Scotland | A domestic fairy; the servants friend if well treated. Scotland |
| Spirit name "Brownies" | Scotland | house spirits of Scotland doing the housework, guiding cows back to the farmyard and ushering their hens back to their roosts. |
"Cairn Maiden" | Scotland | A beautiful, golden haired girl who slices off the heads of harvesters. Scotland |
| Goddess name "Carlin" | Scotland | Goddess of Winter and the spirit of the eve of Samhain (Halloween), the night the ghosts of the dead roamed the world of the living. Scotland |
| Goddess name "Cerridwen" | Scotland | Goddess of fertility Wales / Scotland |
| Goddess name "Corra" | Scotland | Goddess of prophecy and who regularly appeared in the form of a crane. Scotland |
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