Shapeshifters 2
Each-Uisge, Cabyll Ushty, Aughisky (Water Horse) Eich-mhara (Sea Horse) Glaistyn, Glashtyn, Glaistig (Glastonbury) Kelpies (Seaweed Horse) Nuggle, Noggle () Shoopiltee ()
(pron. ech-ooshkya, ACHE-vara, KEHL-pee) Scottish Highlands water horse that haunts 
seas, lakes, and fresh water. Can take the form of a black horse with a greenish 
shine and brown eyes that can hold a human still as stone, a beautiful girl with 
the body of a goat hidden under a green dress, bird, or handsome young man with 
ebony hair mixed with liobhagach an locha: green lake slime, brown eyes & 
silver necklace to lure people into the water to drown. Thoir an aire: Be 
careful (HOH-er un EHR-uh). When a human rides on his back he is stuck to 
the skin, drowned, and eaten. The organs float to shore. A bridle put on a kelpie 
horse will render it powerless. After a 300 year solitary life on Barra, the waterhorse 
fell in love with a young cow-herding maiden with long golden brown hair at the 
heather shore populated by buzzing bees. She seized His necklace to save her life 
after lulling him to sleep after he asked her to fasg his hair [Welsh lleua] and 
she arrayed his locks as Neapolitan damsels also do by their swains. He lived 
with her for a year and a day as a caraid: friend in the shape of a horse, later 
choosing to become mortal to marry her. The Eich-mhara kelpie of the Isle of Skye 
can be heard singing to his child at Benn Froachkie: Heather Peak hoping to persuade 
his mortal wife to return to him and promising a lot of troutlings. (6, 13, 17, 
255)
Far Líath (Grey Man) Lia, Liath Luachra, Liathalbar (Grey Rushes) 
  
  Irish fairy who appears as a dense fog in coastal areas and hills. He can be 
  a hazy shadow moving against the sun or a giant in a grey cloak of mist. He 
  covers up rocky coastlines and his touch spreads blight to potatoes and crops. 
  In triplicate form he has: hyacinth-blue eyes, snow white curly hair and eyelashes, 
  shaggy brow, diadem, wears a 5 folded crimson cloak, gold breast pin, white 
  linen leine tunic with gold embroidery, blue steel helmet and a branch that 
  never sleeps unless harp music is played. He can take the form of a living red 
  fire unquenchable by water. [A curse by his father Hettwn Talaryant/Donn: cold 
  heart, cold hands, stubbornness, an invisible burden] Lord of Luachtar, treasurer 
  of the Clann Morna and father of Conan Mael, Sláinge: Health, Tinne, 
  and Monodar. Fomorian giant who was called to Balors Council at the Cath 
  Mag Tuireadh na b-Fomorach: Second Grain Harvest of Plain of Frost.  Warned 
  of doom by the goddess Mórrígán he was decapitated in battle 
  by Fionn Mac Cumhaill: The White God and the god Conall: Reed gave his severed 
  head a drink and he thanked him. Leinster, Druimm Leit (53, 102)
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