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*lays down beside her on his back* Hai thur! *truns into kitten and jumps on your back* :3

Yeah..Kelp o' th' Loch is based of the Kelpie, most sources say it came from the UK..
This following infromation is about the three 'black' creatures from the latest Kelp O' Th' Loch:

Evil Dog - Cu sith
In Irish mythology the Cu Sith was said to be an immense,coal black hound with glowing or flaming eyes. The Cu Sith was feared as a harbinger of death and would appear to bear away the soul of a person to the afterlife (similar to the manner of the Grim Reaper).

Legend has it that the creature was capable of hunting silently, but would occasionally let out three terrifying barks that could be heard for long distances, including by ships at sea. This was said to be a warning to farmers to lock up their women, let the beast abduct them and take them to a fairy mound (Scottish Gaelic, sìthean ) to supply milk for fairy (daoine-sìth) children.

Evil Cat - Cait Sith
The Cat Sìth or Cat Sídhe (pronounced 'Kett Shee') is a fairy creature from Scottish and Irish mythology, said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its breast. Legend has it that the spectral cat haunts the Scottish Highlands. Some common folklore suggested that the Cat Sìth was not a fairy, but a transformed witch.

The myths surrounding this creature are more common in Scottish Folklore, but a few myths originate in Irish folklore as well.

As proposed by British cryptozoologist Karl Shuker, in his book Mystery Cats of the World (1989), it is possible that the legends of the Cat Sìth were inspired by Kellas Cats, which are probably a distinctive hybrid between European Wildcats and domestic cats only found in Scotland (the European Wildcat is absent from elsewhere in the British Isles). Typical Kellas Cats resemble large black wildcats, but with some peculiar features closer to domestic cats, and have probably been present in Scotland for centuries, maybe even some 2 millennia or more.

Evil looking Horse - Each Uisge
The each uisge is a Scottish water spirit, called the Aughisky in Ireland. It is similar to the kelpie, but far more dangerous.

The Each Uisge, a supernatural water horse found in the Highlands of Scotland, is supposedly the most dangerous water-dwelling creature in Britain. Often mistaken as the Kelpie (which inhabits streams and rivers), the each uisge lives in the sea, sea lochs, and fresh water lochs. The Each Uisge is a shape-shifter, disguising itself as a fine horse, pony, or handsome man. If, while in horse form, a man mounts it, he is only safe as long as the each uisge is ridden in the interior of land. But the merest glimpse or smell of water means the end of the rider: the each uisge's skin becomes adhesive and the creature immediately goes to the deepest part of the loch with its victim. After the victim drowned, the each uisge tears the victim apart and devours the entire body except for the liver, which floats to the surface.

Personally..I love the 'Cu Sith' and its history/origins...

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Rose: I KNOW!! ITS SO WROOOONG!!! gonk

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Horses

Again there are two kinds of Fairy horses. The first one is solitary, wild and untamed. Examples of these free Fairy Horses are the dangerous Each Uisge of the Highlands, the Kelpies, the Cabyll Ushtey of the Isle of Man, and such Bogies as the Brag, the Trash and the Shock. All these have some power of shape-shifting.

*hugs Bite close* I missed you too. Work was soooo tiring.......I don't know how long I can stay up *yawns*

neutral ...Really?...I'm interested in all of them....but I'd hate to have a run-in with any one!! gonk

Dogs

The Fairy dog is as large as a two-year-old stirk, a dark green colour, with ears of deep green. It is of lighter colour towards the feet. In some cases it has a long tail rolled up in a coil on its back, but others have a tail flat and plaited like the straw rug of a pack-saddle. The Black Dogs are the most common of the wild dogs in England, but there are many bogey-beast dogs, the Barguest, the Gally-Trot, the Mauthe Doog of Man, and the Shock. The domestic Fairy Dogs most vividly remembered are Bran and Sceolan, the hunting dogs of Finn and in the Cu Sith, the Hounds of the Hills in Somerset.

The Fairy hound is kept tied as a watch dog in the Brugh, but at times accompanied the women on their expeditions or roamed about alone, making its lairs in clefts of the rocks. Its motion was silent and gliding, and its bark a rude clamour. It went in a straight line, and its bay has been last heard, by those who listened for it, far out at sea. Its immense footmarks, as large as the spread of the human hand, have been found next day traced in the mud, in the snow, or on the sands. Others say it makes noise like a horse galloping, and its bay is like that of another dog, only louder. There is a considerable interval between each bark, and at the third the terror-struck hearer is overtaken and destroyed, unless he has by that time reached a place of safety.

Ordinary dogs have a mortal aversion to the Fairies, and give chase whenever they are around. On coming back, the hair is found to be scraped off their bodies, all except the ears, and they die soon after.

>.>;;.......dats messed up....dose poor puppehs....0-o;