25 Creatures in Scottish Folklore and Myth
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- What creatures and ghouls can be found in Scotland's folklore and mythology? Loch Monsters, Ghosts, Goblins, Faeries, Water Horses and Giants lurk in its forests, highlands, glens and lochs. This list of 25 creatures will give you a good overview of what the Scottish people believed and in many cases still believe regarding their folklore.
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Recorded June 2023.
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Music used:
Dark Tension Rising by Mattia Cupelli
Dark Ambient Background Music - Haunted by CO.AG Music
The End is Always Near by Myuu
Phantasm by Kevin Macleod
Road to Hell by Kevin Macleod
Celtic Impulse by Kevin Macleod
Other songs composed by Albert Schofield for the Jolly Reiver project.
List of Creatures:
1) Cù-sìth
2) Shellycoat
3) Blue Men of the Minch
4) Bean-Nighe
5) Linton Worm
6) Redcaps
7) Phantom Pipers
8) Tarbh-Uisge
9) Baobhan Sith
10) Ùruisg
11) Cat-Sìth
12) Nuckelavee
13) Will-o-the-Wisp
14) Am Fear Liath Mòr
15) Brownies
16) Glaistig
17) Each Uisge
18) Kelpies
19) Big Beast of Loch Awe
20) Biasd Bheulach
21) Selkies
22) Ghillie Dhu
23) Faeries
24) Loch Oich Monster
25) Loch Ness Monster
The Jolly Reiver is my project aiming to preserve and promote the forgotten folklore and history of rural Britain. Primarily focusing on folklore and legends, you’ll not find me trying to deconstruct these old stories or trying to rationalise them with science and psychology. Instead I will present them as they were always told by our forebears, and leave the conclusions up to you. Videos are filmed on location to show you exactly where these stories took place. - บันเทิง
love every thing Scottish greetings from Lebanon 🇱🇧
Absolute gem of a channel. It's been a pleasure to watch this channel grow. Please continue to keep our people's folkish legends and oral traditions alive.
Thanks for watching fella!
@@TheJollyReiverreally glad I found this channel, I write short stories that I try to intertwine folklore into, your content is really helping
@@DK-cy5mt glad you enjoyed!
@@TheJollyReiver can't wait for the ireland and wales videos!
@@TheJollyReiver Yeah , really enjoyed this . One of interest that stands out for me is the Phantom Pipers at number 7 on your list . I'd like to hear a particular story about one Or more about them ( not that I like bagpipes at all ) . Just wondering IF one of these mentioned in 7th on your list are the original ancestors of British former pop singer turned actress/director Billie Piper ( her 1st big hit was " because we want to " ) . Thought maybe her very first ancestor was the inspiration behind the pipped piper nursery rhyme . Maybe you could do a collab video with @The-Resurrectionists video channel on all I've detailed ? Much appreciated .
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I thought I was quite knowledgeable about the folktales of the Scottish/British isles..I’ve heard only about two of these 😂
Oh, what can be better than to sit in front of the fire at nigh, listen to and share Scottish folklore and be utterly and delightfully scared and spooked... 🥰
P.S.: thank you for this amazing selection.
Hope you enjoy!
The lonely places in Scotland are places you are never alone! It's obvious lot of work has gone into this video, so thank you! If you read Adomnan's account of St Columbcill popping up the great glen. They encounter the Loch Ness monster in the river Ness and after it attacks them, it's banished from the river into the loch! Also, i was surprised that the Cailleach (of Corryvreckan among other places) was not in your list, being such a big part of Scottish folklore! A fantastic video!
Always room for her in a part 2!
Love your passion for this stuff... I just listen because it's interesting to me.
Glad you like it!
another brilliant video mate
Thanks man!
Ghost pipers still looking for a place to practice after death
Almost all of these were new to me; thank you! 👍🏴
The loch ness monster is my favorite creature of scottish folklore but it is nice hear to about scottish folklore and nice that you are preserving the fires of the traditions of europa so will you do the welsh folklore creatures because that will preserve the fire even further in that thank you
Glad you enjoyed!
I'm from Inverness (a 5 min drive from Loch Ness)
Truly enjoyed this I did.. was unaware of most of these.. this video was beautiful.. informative.. and intriguing as well..
Looking forward to your videos of English, Irish and Welsh creatures..
Btw.. the best feature of this video is your voice.. it adds a poignant and classic note to your video.. achingly beautiful it is🌹
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My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it! The English one is already out if you’d like to see that!
@@TheJollyReiver Thank you .. I will check it out .. your videos are grand :)
Loved Loved Love this!!! We only have one here in Southern Arizona...the infamous Chupacabra! Pretty sure he'd lose a fight to any of the beasts in this video, though
Glad you enjoyed mate
My God, you couldn't have picked a better musical accompaniment for the Baobhan Sith segment. That "Jaws"-like sound as I heard the story gave me chills. 😨
Thank you :-)
and another great vidoe loveed it one day i might vist Scotland and the countryside I love the countryside there's just something magic about it and thank you for all the hard work you put in the videos and we really appreciate it love your channel and love folklore and mythology never stop telling the stories myths legends folklore your keeping them alive for future generations and keeping the hectic and history alive and makeing sure they don't get lost in the past your doing amazing work
Thank you mate, glad you enjoyed as always :-)
About 4 hours from my home in Maryland is a road in Pennsylvania where it runs through a state park and they call being lattern man and there is a actually lattern man been filmed and you can tell it's supernatural it walks along the road at night.
Lantern man?
@@vibingwithvinylYes latterman is a being carrying a lattern like a old one at night he is seen along the road walking but you will see him before he sees you. And what I've seen myself is a fisherman in muddy clothes with a skeleton type face just walking on the shoulder of the road . And there is nothing for prank to happen these roads are desolate and nobody we know is stupid enough to do that trust me here in the US someone will get a bat or gun and go after the prankster.
Thank you so much for these videos, they've been helping me get inspiration to write my own Sudrian Folklore and Fairytales! As in The Isle of Sodor in Thomas and Friends, since Sodor is located between The Isle of Man and Cumbria. ^^
I heard of 1,2,4, & 5 before
Thanks for this video
this is a great channel!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! Thoroughly enjoyed this. I’m very much looking forward to your videos on Ireland and Wales! Cheers!
Glad you liked it!
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks so much for making it.
Brilliant! This is one to keep for reference. Thanks so much! 🌟👍
I love your content! Keep the videos coming!
I would love a video on Clootie wells!
Brilliant stories and brilliant story telling, i have only heard of maybe 5, some of these are pretty terrible, my romantic brain, i would love most of these to be helpful and happy to help, sadly most are from our darkest nightmares, i know most are warnings but I believe some are true, i will always keep aware of my surroundings and now i will check to see what could be lurking in the dark when traveling to places, thank you for your videos
I have a Master's Degree in English - I loved this video! I've also discovered my Scottish ancestry from Clans MacIntosh and [Mac]Duff so I can't hear enough about Scotland. Thanks for posting!
I live close to Linton Hill and I ended up writing a Ballad about it for a theatre project.
I really love Faerie lore and other old lore, have done so since reading LOTR and Fairies at an impressionable age. Scotland has some weird, wonderful, and wicked ones!
1:26 Didn't know Shellycoat was a Border denizen. It acts like one, too, full of mischief.
4:32 The northern lands have the sort of snaky dragons that makes you understand the "worm" or "serpent" appalation.
5:27 Redcap must have its choice of living places on the Border then!
15:36 there are at least four of these listed in old collections of lore, so they must've enjoyed a following among Highland shepherds.
13:52 A few Scottish people have come to Sasquatch Chronicles over the years and claimed there is a Bigfoot-style "wild man" in the northern hills. Might this legend be a connection?
19:06 again, sounds like another Bigfoot-style creature, perhaps.
19:36 There is a beautiful old ballad about a selkie that is a man instead of a woman. Can't remember the title though.
I really enjoyed that, weldone and thank you X
This is the content I subscribed for.
Great video! Glad to see you're nearly at 30K subs :)
The Nuckalavee reminds me of the Ringraithes in in Lord of the Rings. Truly terrifying 😮
The Nac Mac Feegle deserve an honourary mention. Crivvens!
excellent video. Great subject. Sort of thing i'd like to see discussed on Milleniyule too
Wonderful summary of things I do not want to ever see! On to England!
I recognised a few names there but i still enjoyed the stories . A merry Christmas and happy New year to you and yours
Well done! Would love other videos like this for other parts of the UK
There's some horror films to be made out of all these.
Excellent video.
Cheers pal 👍🏻
Thank you :-)
Can I just say well done with the pronunciations. They can be pretty tricky. I thoroughly enjoyed this video and it is obvious that a lot of work went into it. Thank you 🙏🏻🏴
Just as a bit of trivia the Loch Ness Monster is known by some as Niseag (pronounced nee shack.)
Cheers mate, much appreciated! Are you a Gaelic speaker?
@@TheJollyReiver I’m not a natural speaker (I live just north of the Carter Bar.) but I’ve been learning since the beginning of the lockdowns. It’s a beautiful language but some of the pronunciations are really difficult as a lot of the letters and combinations of letters sound completely different to English. Most people completely butcher the words but you pretty much nailed them. Not an easy task without practice. Thank you for helping to keep the old tales alive. I’m off to watch your video on the English folklore next. 😎👍🏻
Aye I can speak a little bit of Gaelic as I’ve always been fascinated with highland folklore and history, but not a native speaker either aha. Thanks for the feedback, means a lot and gives me some confidence!
love this
What a great follow up to the English instalment !
Thank you for the introduction to a new old world.
My pleasure!
11:09 coffin dance cats
I first heard the name "Ghillie Du" through Brownie Guides, as a potential name for a Six. In our pack, we had Gnomes, Imps, Leprechauns and Sprites Sixes, with matching badges. I saw in my book they also had Kelpies (which took the human form rather than the better known horse form, for some reason), the aforementioned Ghillie Du (who wore a Tam O'Shanter cap, for maximum Scottishness), Pixies, Elves and this obscure Welsh fairy called a Bwbachod (whom I found out the other day steals barstools from underneath teetotalers - THE BADGE EVEN DEPICTED HIM HOLDING A STOOL!!!!🤣)
I found out that before my time, Brownies had even more options for Sixes' names, including the Tylwyth Teg from Wales, Little People from Ireland and Fairies, who were depicted with wings. I remember being a little girl and asking my Mum why there was no Fairies six. She responded that it was likely because nearly all the girls would want to be in it! I can imagine that is why they retired the name.
When we went on a trip to Loch Ness for a week in Primary School, we got pranked by the guides. They told us about the Ghost Pipers and later, played bagpipe music on a radio nearby our sleeping quarters. One of the kids had a panic attack.
Would you consider mythological/religious figures seperate from folklore, particularly in the Irish and Welsh context? Love the videos!
I love how British folktales are always either:
This creature will do your laundry if you give it sweets and booze
OR
This creature will eat your kids, you, your mother, and burn your house down because you looked at it wrong
I love it
13:54 dont mind cousin phil. he always was an odd man
love this Scottish traditional music
Nice.
I enjoy this video very much then and I loved this video very much then.
In Gettysburg Pennsylvania is where a 3 day civil war battle took place between Robert Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Gordon Mead's Army of the Potomac well both my father's and mother's family fought against each other. Well needless to say it is probably the most haunted civil war battlefield in the country. Almost daily people will hear phantom music marching of troops, phantom gunfire, shouting, screams and of spirits not just ghost but interacting ghosts. A half directly behind President Eisenhower's farm through the woods is Devil's den where the Texans and Floriadans where picked off by Union troops and killed a lot of men. Well in devil's den in 2001 my wife were waking and saw two confederate soldiers one sitting on a stone wall and the other taking to people. And at the time I thought nothing of it until the soldier on the stone wall wasn't moving it was a like looking at a 3d picture of a man with terror on his face and I tried to talk to him but he never responded. Just stared at the ground. I even waved in front of his face. That was some freaky shit. We walked and 5 minutes they were gone. I walked to the stone wall and no boot prints in the dust and no weeds trampled down. I was online around Halloween time to book a historical train ride through Adams county and came across the story of the soldiers in devil's den. I said hell no but it did happen. Mentioning our wonderful 5 star general Dwight Eisenhower who later became president his home is directly on the battlefield his land and surrounding is extremely haunted.nMaime and Dwight neven rich often would spend there days on there sun porch overlooking the woods and often the secret service officers would have go to the woods because Dwight would men walking around so of course the people protecting the president would have to check it out and find nothing. Crazy isn't it.
To correct a comment Dwight Eisenhower and Maime Eisenhower though rich lived simply.
Happy to realise that I didn't waste my Scottish childhood all those decades ago as I recognise the majority of these 🎉
👍👍For a master story teller loved it
What about the legendary Haggis? Most notably the 'Great Crested' variety. Herds of wild haggii are said to roam the Outer Hebrides - but that could just be a baseless myth that we grew up with in England... 🤔
cat sith is actually a character in a final fantasy game, but people say it as its spelt. wonder how they will say it in the remake next year when he arrives
have to say never herd of the warter bulls that's a new one on me. herd a few of these thou.bought a book on scottish boarder myths and legends a while ago.
The fascinating thing is, there's stories of water bulls (usually freshwater) in Scottish folklore, but if you go looking into Eastern myths, there's a Japanese sea-dwelling yōkai known as the ushi-oni, which roughly translates as "ox-demon" or "bull-ogre." It can be any number of variations, but it's most typically pictured an ox head atop the body of a gigantic spider, or can be a thing like a minotaur, with the bull's head atop an otherwise human body.
Omg Cat-Sith! A final fantasy reference 😂
Just seen pele tower in creswell is opening next spring after they restore it, could be a good video
You missed out our national animal the Unicorn 🦄 and an honourable mention to the 3 legged Haggis that roam the Mountains and Glen's too 😂 or was I just drinking too much Scotch Whisky 🤣🤪
these spirit’s need to be respected
I am of Clan Carmichael from Scotland.
Mythology and mythical creatures and paranormal also spiritual realms also supernatural, which is what I enjoyed and believed in.
the Pavanshi looks like Edward Cullen with Bella's hair... Edward Jacob would look like that
How did I not know my country had its own mythology
The brownie seem to be pretty much the same as the Scandinavian "Tomte"
I came here looking for the weird phenodoggery. Mentioned in a collection of tales about wee folk and weirds.
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the cat sith looks similar to a kellas cat
Kellas cat?
The Blue Men sound like a Scottish adaptation of the Draugr.
Many if not all of the being's are either hybrid or full E.T's . The Baobhan Sith in layman's terms are the Vampire E.T . They are allies of the Draco E.T and in the 1800's were augmented to have no fangs . The Baobhan Sith set up the Red cross . Off world they have full fangs , here without fangs in modern times .Some super soldiers from earth have become Vampires for various reasons.
The cu sith is basically the hellhound another equivalent is the barghest from England.
I would like to point out the stories of Baobhan Sith; that here in the US the Native American populations have a mythical vengeful "Deer Lady" from the woodlands tribes. Beautiful woman on deer hooves who only seeks men who have done something very wrong. I have often wondered if the first Scots who emigrated to America shared the stories of Baobhan Sith with the Natives of Virginia/Carolina since they weren't always in good favour with the British rule and were "given" land out in the "frontier" to push the Natives further westward, many Scots cohabitating with the Native peoples it is likely to have happened. Or did both peoples have these existing creatures in their oral histories, bringing together the connection we as a species have as we tell our mythos across thousands of years. My paternal grandparents emigrated from Scotland in 1950s sharing faeries & Gaelic stories, here I was raised in Virginia taught both Black & Native stories from my mother's people, it fascinates me how Old World stories crossed the ocean while a bit discerning that my mother's people were not allowed to keep their histories.
I appreciate these Scottish folklore videos, it keeps the memory of my grandparents alive.
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Some of these just seem like superstition, (though I'd dismiss none as such). But this feeling of dread is common enough for me to say: I think those from the lower world (not sure exactly what I mean by that) are able to reach us that way. It's like a kind of emotion based telepathy, I suppose. Anyway, here in "Dogman country" I hear of the same phenomenon.
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Odd that it isn’t mentioned that the monster of Loch Ness was not described as a serpent or a plesiosaur-like beast until the famous faked photo. Huh.
i dont want too sound like a nutcase here but i seen what i seen,,,in a place called the pete moss near blackburn west lothian,walking through it to the next town seafield,,i seen 2 big hounds running through the trees parallel to the path,and i say hounds becuase i love dogs,these wernt just any dogs,,my first instinct was oh fuck,they better not run this way but they just kept running in the same direction,then out of site,,,then i started doubting what i seen,but like i say,,,i ken what i saw that day
Strange things out there for sure 👀
You're not a nutcase. "Hounds" like you describe are seen all over the world, even in Australia. Even if they are only earthly animals, us humans know much less about the creatures of this world than we'd like to admit.
Go hiontach ar fad! Bhainim sult as an fisean seo! Go raibh maith agat agus beannactht. Go n-eiri leat! --N
Creature in the title picture for this video kinda looking like a snack ngl
Ùruisg look like Gollum.
I killed many Cu Sith in FF4😊
you think people now have an imagination 😂
Please Wales 🏴 and Ireland 🇮🇪 🙏
Ireland nearly finished!
there are humans with blue skin
Sorry but if any of these myths and legends are over 800 years old then there not Scottish the Scots originally came from northern Ireland in 13th century
You forgot one. My Foul Polish Land Lady. No one ever moves out.
Thumbnail looks like karen gillan