Если ты не любишь эльфов, Странник, ты просто не умеешь их готовить.
Если ты не любишь эльфов, Странник, ты просто не умеешь их готовить.
Этим словом, означающим «тряпка», звалась смертоносная демоница, что водилась в лохане (Лохан Черной Форели) на Скае. Вид ее был безобразен, а характер отвратителен, и описание ее можно найти у Маккензи в «Шотландском фольклоре и народной жизни» (c.251).
[Мотивы: G11.3; G346.2]
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Luideag
Murderous female demon of Scottish Gaelic oral tradition, related to the fearful athach. Squalid in appearance as she was evil, the luideag haunted several pools on the Isle of Skye, especially the Lochan of the Black Trout. Folk motifs: G11.3; G346.2.
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Luideag, "The Rag"
At a small loch between Broadford and Sleat, in Skye, called "The Lakelet of Black Trout" (Lochan nan dubh bhreac), thirty or forty years ago, the figure of a young woman with a coat about her head was commonly to be seen at night in the neighbourhood of and on the public road that passes that way. She went by the name Luideag, i.e. the Rag, or slovenly female. She did not answer when spoken to, and disappeared as silently and mysteriously as she made her appearance. The place is lonely and far from houses, and there was no conceivable reason why any one, much less a female, should nightly frequent it. An exciseman passing the way once spoke to Luideag, first in English and then in Gaelic, but she answered not a word. A man was found lying dead on the road at the place, and she never appeared afterwards.
"Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland", J.G.Campbell, 1902 — p.208
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