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Each-Uisge (Water Horse)
Deadlier than the kelpie, the each-uisge haunts the sea and lochs. It appears as a fine horse or handsome man. Mount it and your flesh fuses to its body. It gallops into the deepest water. Only your liver floats to shore.
Ancient - Present
Scottish Highlands
200+ witnesses
The Each-Uisge is Scotland’s most deadly water spirit.
Worse Than Kelpie
The difference:
- Far more dangerous
- Lives in lochs/sea
- More aggressive
- Harder to escape
- More thoroughly kills
The Method
How it hunts:
- Grazes like horse
- Beautiful appearance
- Rider mounts
- Skin bonds instantly
- Drags to depths
The Killing
What happens:
- Tears victim apart
- Devours everything
- Except the liver
- Which floats up
- All that remains
Human Form
Alternative shape:
- Handsome youth
- Near water always
- Seaweed in hair
- Too attractive
- Lures women
The Warning Signs
How to know:
- Near sea or loch
- Too perfect horse
- Sand or seaweed
- Wet and gleaming
- Never far from water
Famous Tales
Stories told:
- MacGregor tale
- Children victims
- Whole families lost
- Warnings passed down
- Never mount strange horse