Fuath
A Fuath ( Scottish Gaelic " on fuath " pronunciation [ fuə ], plural fuathan, German: hatred ) is a malignant, Gaelic water spirit. The name is also sometimes used regionally for the Kelpie or Each Uisge in Northern Ireland or the bean Nighe. The Scots use the name, to generally relate to water spirits ( the Scottish hole ) inhabiting the sea, rivers or lakes. Sometimes the name is even given high land and nature spirits, but all beings with this name are malignant.
Appearance and behavior
In some descriptions, they are covered with a shaggy, yellow fur, in others they only have a long mane along its back. They have webbed toes, a tail with spikes and no nose. They usually bear green, the color of the fairies, it was a robe, a robe or smock ( Kirtle ). Sometimes you get married people ( usually female ), whose descendants have also a mane, a tail and / or webbed fingers. Sunlight or a cold beam of light kills them instantly when they come into contact with it.
Relative
In English, the fuath also sometimes called in the anglicized form " Vough ". Other names are Scottish Gaelic " arrachd " ( German: Ghost, contemptible person) or " fuath - arrachd ". A " fuath " is the mother of " brollachan ", a shapeshifter who takes the appearance of people and objects on which he is sitting. Other subspecies of living in the Scottish Highlands " fuath " close the " beithir ", " fideal ", " peallaidh " and " ùruisg " one. Another descendant of the " fuath " is the Nuckelavee, one of the most feared monsters in the Scottish Highlands.