Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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 |
God name "Coventina" | Scotland | One of the most potent of the Celtic river gods |
"Cowalker" | Scotland | An apparition that is identical to the living person, which shows itself shortly before the persons death or at his or her funeral. Scotland |
"Dahu" | Scotland | A folkloric creature well known in France and Switzerland also known as a Haggis in Northern England and Scotland. |
Goddess name "Dia Griene" | Scotland | Goddess of war Scotland |
Goddess name "Elphame aka Elphlane" | Scotland | Elphane, Goddess of death and disease. Scotland |
Goddess name "Elphame/ Elphlane/ Elphane/ Queen of Elphame" | Scotland | A goddess of death & disease |