Legendary Creatures

Wichtlein behave in much the same way as goblins. They announce the death of a miner by tapping three times. When a disaster is about to happen they are heard digging, pounding and imitating miners work.

The use of White Ladies for both ghosts and fairies is an indication of the close connection between fairies and the dead. The White Ladies were direct descendants of the Tuatha De Danann.The name “Guinevere” means “white phantom”.They may be...

(terlooeth teig) . Tylwyth Teg is a general name for the fairies in Wales, it means the ‘fair folk’. Like the euphemistic Bendith y Mamau the flattering name was thought to appease them, in an attempt to avert their kidnapping activities. Fairies would...

Trows (Alternatively trowe; a Scots term for troll)  live on the Shetland and Orkney Islands and are probably the best known, and widespread, element of Orkney folklore. Description  Similiar to the Scandinavian Trolls and like them, they live...

The Hosts of the Sidhe or Hollow Hills. The inhabitants of the Otherworld. They were thought to ride out on the eves of the four great fire festivals when they had communion with earthly folk. Yeats wrote of them as ‘The Hosts of the Air’.

(ben-neeya)  She occurs both in Highland and Irish tradition as one of the variants of the Banshee. The Washing women is the type of Banshee who haunts the lonely streams of Scotland and Ireland. Washing the blood-stained garments of those about to die. She is...

Sometimes called the “King of the Dead”. He is similar to the Ankou in that he collects souls upon their death and escorts them to the land of the dead. Traveling his own familiar paths in black  with a black cart he is mainly seen on November Eve.

Bendith y Mamau (bendith er mamigh) ‘The Mothers’ Blessing’  which was the name of the fairies of the Carmarthenshire country in Wales; this saying became a prayer spoken to ward-off harm. These are faerie-goblin cross-breed and are known...

A blue-faced hag, akin to the Cailleachs Bheare and Bheur, who eats people. She is supposed to live in a cave in the Dane Hills in Leicestershire. There was a great oak at the mouth of the cave in which she was said to hide to leap out, catch and devour stray children...

The Blue Men used particularly to haunt the strait between Long Island and the Shiant Islands. They swam out to wreck passing ships, and could be stopped by captains who were good at rhyming and could keep the last word. They were supposed to be fallen angels. The...