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Scottish mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of Scotland, sometimes being elaborated upon by successive generations, and at other times being rejected and replaced by other explanatory narratives.
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Scottish folklore (Scottish Gaelic: Beul-aithris na h-Alba) encompasses the folklore of the Scottish people from their earliest records until today. Folklorists , both academic and amateur, have published a variety of works focused specifically on the area over the years. [ 1 ]
The Scottish novelist James Hogg incorporated brownie folklore into his novel The Brownie of Bodsbeck (1818). [69] [67] The novel is set in 1685, when the Covenanters, a Scottish Presbyterian movement, were being persecuted. [67] Food goes missing from the farm of Walter of Chaplehope, leading villagers to suspect it is the "brownie of Bodsbeck".
The Scottish Gaelic name Slúagh stems from the Old Irish slúag (≈ slóg), meaning 'host, army; crowd, assembly'.Variant forms include slógh and sluag. [3] It derives from the Proto-Celtic root * slougo-(cf. Gaul. catu-slougi 'troops of combat', Middle Welsh llu 'troop', Old Bret.-lu 'army'), whose original meaning may have been 'those serving the chief', by comparing with Balto-Slavic ...
After researching folklore traditions gathered primarily from Gaelic areas of Scotland, [10] an authority on congenital disorders, Susan Schoon Eberly, has speculated that the tale of the wulver may have its basis in humans suffering a medical condition; possibly Hunter syndrome or lycanthropy, she suggests. [11]