E is for Each-Uisge #AtoZChallenge

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E is for Each-Uisge

E is for Each-Uisge

Origin:  Scotland.  Name means “Water Horse.” They live in the lochs and sea. (I know another Scottish one.  I'll try better next time.  I promise.  Cross my heart.  Hope to die.   But Scottish faerie names are so wonderfully unpronounceable!)

Description:  They often appear as horses.  They trick people into riding them. (I've mentioned before on this blog that riding strange steeds is a bad idea.)  They drag their victims into the depths and eat them.  With the exception of their livers.  They don’t like liver.  Sometimes they appear as handsome young men in hopes of seducing pretty girls.  A girl can spot him by the seaweed in his hair.

Disposition:  They eat people.  Enough said.  And they have green slimy stuff in their hair if that first point doesn’t turn you off.