On the back of Gordi's posting, I took a look at the map kindly offered by Kenzo and went westwards from where our
mushroom-carving Caledonian reported on!
I'd guess countries all over the world -where small communities have been in existence for centuries, have such unusual
phenomena that could be rational explained by more-normal reasons the more-modernised areas of those countries
have accepted. But, strange things happen today and have happened that nobody as a logical version for.
Superstition is a great breeder in these weird creatures for many often-remote communities, a blame-tactic that we still
use today, but sadly without an imaginative beast of crone within its narrative. Is your memory fading due to age because
you cannot remember where you placed an item...? Or did a sneaky Boggart take said-object and waits for a payment to
return what it stole?
In modern-times = apologise or be cancelled! We don't wander far from who we really are as a species!
Take for example, the 'Ciuthach' on the left of Kenzo's map. Ciuthach or 'Cughtagh' is the title within folkore more relevant
to the Irish and the Manx history (Manx -Isle of Man in the Irish Sea). Yet, the tale of a cave-dwelling spirit or monster is
displayed as being part of the oral history of a Scottish island. (In actuality, that area on the folklore map is still connected
to the Scottish mainland, but the map may be referring to the outer-islands) and shows the movement of people in
general.
But the Ciuthach that supposedly inhabited the peninsula of Kintyre could have been a rejected community -maybe Picts,
who inhabited in sea-caves and their isolated living bred gossip and tales which manifested from a reclusive group to a
shambling thing that lived a degenerate existence. It is only a small step to allow such a story to evolve communal lore -with
assitance from migration, into one of the many beings that superstition spawns.
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Above the Ciuthach on Kenzo's kindly-provided map is the 'Ceasg', a mermaid 'maighdean na tuinne'-or maid of the sea.
What surprises me is the specific identification often used to describe the marine maiden in the form of half-human and half
-salmon.
In the north-western corner of the Orkney islands, a very recent tale tells of a Ceasg being seen by a farmer's wife on the shore
of Birsay. Attempting to capture it -and failing, the wife spoke of the mermaid as “a good-looking person” whilst her husband
described her as “having a covering of brown hair.”!
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Finally for that promontory area of Scotland, there's the Each-uisge, a traditional style of water-kelpie.
A shape-shifting water-horse that does what most kinds of this mythological creatures does and lures the innocent to the depths
of their watery-dens. However, this beastie -in its form as a horse, has an adhesive quality to its flesh and any brave rider cannot
change their minds as his/her mendacious mount plunges into the depths of their habitat.
mushroom-carving Caledonian reported on!
I'd guess countries all over the world -where small communities have been in existence for centuries, have such unusual
phenomena that could be rational explained by more-normal reasons the more-modernised areas of those countries
have accepted. But, strange things happen today and have happened that nobody as a logical version for.
Superstition is a great breeder in these weird creatures for many often-remote communities, a blame-tactic that we still
use today, but sadly without an imaginative beast of crone within its narrative. Is your memory fading due to age because
you cannot remember where you placed an item...? Or did a sneaky Boggart take said-object and waits for a payment to
return what it stole?
In modern-times = apologise or be cancelled! We don't wander far from who we really are as a species!
Take for example, the 'Ciuthach' on the left of Kenzo's map. Ciuthach or 'Cughtagh' is the title within folkore more relevant
to the Irish and the Manx history (Manx -Isle of Man in the Irish Sea). Yet, the tale of a cave-dwelling spirit or monster is
displayed as being part of the oral history of a Scottish island. (In actuality, that area on the folklore map is still connected
to the Scottish mainland, but the map may be referring to the outer-islands) and shows the movement of people in
general.
But the Ciuthach that supposedly inhabited the peninsula of Kintyre could have been a rejected community -maybe Picts,
who inhabited in sea-caves and their isolated living bred gossip and tales which manifested from a reclusive group to a
shambling thing that lived a degenerate existence. It is only a small step to allow such a story to evolve communal lore -with
assitance from migration, into one of the many beings that superstition spawns.
.........................................................................................
Above the Ciuthach on Kenzo's kindly-provided map is the 'Ceasg', a mermaid 'maighdean na tuinne'-or maid of the sea.
What surprises me is the specific identification often used to describe the marine maiden in the form of half-human and half
-salmon.
In the north-western corner of the Orkney islands, a very recent tale tells of a Ceasg being seen by a farmer's wife on the shore
of Birsay. Attempting to capture it -and failing, the wife spoke of the mermaid as “a good-looking person” whilst her husband
described her as “having a covering of brown hair.”!
.........................................................................................
Finally for that promontory area of Scotland, there's the Each-uisge, a traditional style of water-kelpie.
A shape-shifting water-horse that does what most kinds of this mythological creatures does and lures the innocent to the depths
of their watery-dens. However, this beastie -in its form as a horse, has an adhesive quality to its flesh and any brave rider cannot
change their minds as his/her mendacious mount plunges into the depths of their habitat.
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