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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.
James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar. Spence was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and vice-president of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society. [1] He founded the Scottish National ...
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The glaistig / ˈ ɡ l æ ʃ t ɪ ɡ / is a ghost from Scottish mythology, a type of fuath.It is also known as maighdean uaine (Green Maiden), and may appear as a woman of beauty or monstrous mien, as a half-woman and half-goat similar to a faun or satyr, or in the shape of a goat. [1]
Robert Kirk (9 December 1644 – 14 May 1692) was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight, a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands.
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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 ...