Nuckelavee

The Nuckelavee (or Nuckalavee ) is a creature from Scottish mythology of the family of Fuath.

As a creature from Celtic mythology is the Nuckelavee the most feared of all Scottish elves. It lives mainly in the sea, but is blamed for destroyed crops, epidemics and drought. His breath leaves the crops are withered, and the cattle sick.

It resembles a centaur, has a huge, gaping mouth and a single giant eye, which burns with a red flame. The gruesome details of his appearance is the fact that he has no skin. Black blood flows through his veins yellow and the pale sinews and powerful muscles as a pulsating mass visible. He has an aversion to running water and those that are hunted by him, just need a watercourse crossing to get rid of him. Some reports claim that he was just a big head on two small arms, but with all the above properties.

Another aversion of Nuckelavee is the burning of kelp for the production of kelp. This angered him and caused him to kindle, to kill cattle and other animals and to make bad harvest a raging plague. At this time, The Mither O 'The Sea, another god -like creature from Celtic mythology and orkney'schen, the only person who can stop it.

Trivia

The figure of Nuckelavee is occasionally taken for malicious characters. He exists as figure # 66 of the series Monster in My Pocket and is in video games like The Bard's Tale or role-playing games such as Vampire: The Masquerade represented. It also comes in the television series Grimm before in the episode " Quill " ( S2E4 ).