BY TRADITION
Scottish Gaelic folklore
3 records of Scottish Gaelic folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.
Baobhan SìthFemale Highland fairies who appear as beautiful dancers and drain the blood of hunters. They belong to Gaelic sìth tradition, not to the Irish banshee and not to literary vampires.Bean NigheThe washing woman of Scottish Gaelic tradition, a type of death messenger related to the banshee complex, seen laundering the clothes of those about to die.Each-uisgeThe Gaelic water-horse of Highland lochs, shape-changing and devouring. John Gregorson Campbell insisted it is not the kelpie of streams and torrents, though English retellings often merge the two.
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