Does anyone know any scottish mythology?

Question

I have a project due for my Imagery class in art school. I've been researching all night and I can't find one decent myth of scottish descent. I don't need every little detail, but all the major points would be great. Thank you so very much.

Answer 1

Look up info on the Sith----Scottish fairies.

I know that sounds like a Star Wars reference, but it's not. The word is pronounced 'shee', like in banshee.

Answer 2

Look for Scottish myths and animals.
Shapeshifting in Celtic myth:
Shapeshifters changed into animals by chanting verses. The chant is listed on the web site.
There is in Highland Scotland folklore a specific spell used to affect the transformation of an individual. This type of spell is known as fith-fath (fee-faw) and as most Celtic spells was chanted verse. . . . circumstances where a person needed to walk unseen, which was usually done in the shape of an animal

The myths were told in poems -- an oral tradition. The Dean of Lismores' Book. Two or three ancient heroic stories told in poetry form with English translation.

Also, deities were associated with nature -- rivers, mountains, etc. The last web site is a "cached" copy from Google and describes some of the myths of the deities. Describes the goddess who formed the lochs and mountains. "Almost all the rivers of Scotland were abodes of goddesses"

Answer 3

Have a paperback around here on scottish myths but as usual when I need something it disappers until sometime later.
a look in the libariry and bookstores will uncover many such tales.
Will Scottish Fairy Tales Do. Found my book.
Thomas the Rhymer,Gold-tree and Silver-Tre,Whippety-Stourie, The Red-Etin,The Seal Catcher and the Merman,The Page-boy and the Silver Goblet,The Black Bull of Norroway, The Wee Bannock,The Elfin Kinght,What to say to the New Mune,Habetrot the Spinstress,Nippit Fit and Clippit Fit,The Faries of Merlibn's Crag,TheWedding of Robin Redbreast and Jenny Wren,Te Dwarf Stne,Canonbie Dick and Thomas of Ercildoune,The Laird o'Co',Poussie,The Milk-White Doo,The Draiglin' Hogney,The Brownie o' Ferne-Den,The Witch of Fife,Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm,The Fox and the Wolf, Katherine Crackernuts,The Well o' the World's End,Farquhar MacNell,Peerifool,The Batttle of the Birds,The Sea-Maiden,Rashin-Coatie,The Fox Outwitted,How the Wolf lost His Tail,The Worme of Linton,The Legend of Linton Church,Michael Scott, the Tale of Sir James Ramsay of Bamff,The Lee Penney,The Craig LiathMhor,Fiddler's Well,The Faries of Scotland,The Fairy and the Miller's wife,Water Fairies,Fairy Transportation,The Fairy Boy of Leith, The Smith and the Fairies,Redemption from Fairy Land,Thom and Willie, The Scottish Brownie,The Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Bogle,The Doomed Rider, Nuckelavee, The Witch of , Laggan, The Blacksmith's Wife of Yarrowfoot, The Missing Web,The Witches of Delnabo,The Old Lady of Littledean,The Island Cave,TheSpectre Piper,Prince Charlie's cave,Adam Bell,The Winding Sheet,The Tale of the Shifty Lad,the Widow's Son, Lothian Tom, Cousin Mattie,Elphin Irving, The Haunted Ships

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_mythology

Also, go to the library and check out "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by JK Rowling.

Yes ... the Harry Potter author. She wrote a book on where she got a lot of the ideas for the mystical creatures in her books. They come from all over the world. For example... kelpie Scottish water spirit, and the Banshee is also a Scottish mythical creature.

I just happened to remember those.

Answer 5

Selkies; beautiful women who turn out to be seals. And horses who carry unsuspecting riders to their doom in the sea.

Lots of sea imagery, there's a starter.

Answer 6

I'd check out the Picts. Not too tough to trace the actual origin, either.

Answer 7

Lock ness monster Lock is scottish for lake.
there are heaps of sites and info on it