Scottish Water Mythical Presences 2

...following to the previous post...

Kelpies
These are shape shaping aquatic spirits haunting rivers and streams. They usually appear in the form of a horse but can also take a human form.
"These water horses can also appear in human form. They may materialize as a beautiful young woman, hoping to lure young men to their death. Or they might take on the form of a hairy human lurking by the river, ready to jump out at unsuspecting travellers and crush them to death in a vice-like grip. Kelpies can also use their magical powers to summon up a flood in order to sweep a traveller away to a watery grave."
The sound of a kelpie’s tail entering the water is said to resemble that of thunder.
Keywords
horse
woman
flood
watery grave
thunder

Reference
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/The-Kelpie/

Bean Nighe
Her name means washer woman. She is a ghost haunting desolated rivers or lonely pools.
Detailed infomration can be found on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_nighe), so I am not going to copy them here.
Keywords
woman
wash
lonely
death in childbirth
mournful dirge


https://www.spookyisles.com/2014/07/bean-nighe-the-celtic-washerwoman-prophetess-of-doom/

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