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Each-uisge
Scottish Lochs and Coastal Waters
Danger Level: 9/10
By Elizabeth Stein for Mythos Atlas. About the author. Editorial notes are grounded in the site's cited sources and can be challenged through the contact page.
Abilities
ShapeshiftingAdhesive SkinUnderwater Speed
Lore & Legend
The Salt-Water Horse
The each-uisge of the Highlands is the vicious cousin of the inland kelpie: a handsome horse by the loch or sea that, once mounted, adheres and dives. Survivors' tales (Campbell, later collectors) leave a liver on the shore. It can also appear as a handsome man.
Irish each uisce shares the water-horse job, but the Highland name and the sea-loch setting are distinct. The danger is coastal and lacustrine.
Primary Sources
“Highland accounts distinguish the each-uisge of sea-lochs from the river kelpie: a horse that sticks to the rider and dives, leaving viscera on the shore.”