Shapeshifters 2
Each-Uisge, Cabyll Ushty, Aughisky (Water Horse) Eich-mhara (Sea Horse) Glaistyn, Glashtyn, Glaistig (Glastonbury) Kelpies (Seaweed Horse) Nuggle, Noggle () Shoopiltee ()
(pron. ech-ooshkya, ACHE-vara, KEHL-pee) Scottish Highlands water horse that haunts
seas, lakes, and fresh water. Can take the form of a black horse with a greenish
shine and brown eyes that can hold a human still as stone, a beautiful girl with
the body of a goat hidden under a green dress, bird, or handsome young man with
ebony hair mixed with liobhagach an locha: green lake slime, brown eyes &
silver necklace to lure people into the water to drown. Thoir an aire: Be
careful (HOH-er un EHR-uh). When a human rides on his back he is stuck to
the skin, drowned, and eaten. The organs float to shore. A bridle put on a kelpie
horse will render it powerless. After a 300 year solitary life on Barra, the waterhorse
fell in love with a young cow-herding maiden with long golden brown hair at the
heather shore populated by buzzing bees. She seized His necklace to save her life
after lulling him to sleep after he asked her to fasg his hair [Welsh lleua] and
she arrayed his locks as Neapolitan damsels also do by their swains. He lived
with her for a year and a day as a caraid: friend in the shape of a horse, later
choosing to become mortal to marry her. The Eich-mhara kelpie of the Isle of Skye
can be heard singing to his child at Benn Froachkie: Heather Peak hoping to persuade
his mortal wife to return to him and promising a lot of troutlings. (6, 13, 17,
255)
Far Líath (Grey Man) Lia, Liath Luachra, Liathalbar (Grey Rushes)
Irish fairy who appears as a dense fog in coastal areas and hills. He can be
a hazy shadow moving against the sun or a giant in a grey cloak of mist. He
covers up rocky coastlines and his touch spreads blight to potatoes and crops.
In triplicate form he has: hyacinth-blue eyes, snow white curly hair and eyelashes,
shaggy brow, diadem, wears a 5 folded crimson cloak, gold breast pin, white
linen leine tunic with gold embroidery, blue steel helmet and a branch that
never sleeps unless harp music is played. He can take the form of a living red
fire unquenchable by water. [A curse by his father Hettwn Talaryant/Donn: cold
heart, cold hands, stubbornness, an invisible burden] Lord of Luachtar, treasurer
of the Clann Morna and father of Conan Mael, Sláinge: Health, Tinne,
and Monodar. Fomorian giant who was called to Balors Council at the Cath
Mag Tuireadh na b-Fomorach: Second Grain Harvest of Plain of Frost. Warned
of doom by the goddess Mórrígán he was decapitated in battle
by Fionn Mac Cumhaill: The White God and the god Conall: Reed gave his severed
head a drink and he thanked him. Leinster, Druimm Leit (53, 102)
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