Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Fideal" | Scotland | A sprite of water who haunts lonely pools and hides herself in the gråśśes by the water. Scotland |
"Habundia" | Scotland | queen of the White Ladies. |
Goddess name "Harimella" | Scotland | A Goddess of protection; of Tungrain origin. Scotland |
Goddess name "Harimella/ Viradechthis" | Scotland | A goddess of Tungrain origin |
"Hornie" | Scotland | Auld Hornie. The devil, so called in Scotland. The allusion is to the horns with which Satan is generally represented. |
Spirit name "Kelpie" | Scotland | a very bad tempered water spirit with only one eye and that likes to kill humans |
"Klippe" | Scotland | The local name for a fairy. Forfarshire. Scotland |
"Mahoun" | Scotland | Name of contempt for Mahomet, a Moslem, a Moor. In Scotland it used to mean devil. |
Goddess name "Momu" | Scotland | Goddess of wells and hillsides. Scotland |
Goddess name "Muireartach" | Scotland | Battle goddess Ireland / 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 "Scotia" | Scotland | A bloodthirsty sorceress and a goddess of battle and the slain. Scotland |
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 "Triduana" | Scotland | Goddess of Edinburgh Scotland |
Goddess name "Viradechthis aka Harimella" | Scotland | Goddess of protection. Scotland |
Spirit name "White Lady" | Scotland | White Lady Of Avenel, a tutelary spirit. Scotland |
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 |
Goddess name "Cerridwen" | Wales / Scotland | A moon, grain, education & healing goddess |