The Lancashire version of Wee Willie Winkie of Scotland, Old Luk Oie of Hans Andersen and, even less credible as a folk figure. The Dustman. These are all nursery spirits, and it is doubtful if they ever enjoyed full grown-up credence. Unlike the nursery bogies, these are all gentle spirits, worthy to be invoked by weary nurses and mothers of obstinately wakeful children.

The Shetland water horse, or cabyll-ushtey. He is described by Keightley in the Shetland section of Fairy Mythology (p.171):

The water-spirit is in Shetland called Shoopiltee; he appears in the form of a pretty little horse, and endeavours to entice persons to ride on him, and then gallops with them into the sea.

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See Aughisky.

This, the Highland water-horse, is perhaps the fiercest and most dangerous of all the water-horses, although the Cabyll Ushtey runs it close. It differs from the Kelpie in haunting the sea and lochs, while the Kelpie belongs to running water. It seems also to transform itself more readily. Its most usual form is that of a sleek and handsome horse, which almost offers itself to be ridden, but if anyone is so rash as to mount it, he is carried at headlong speed into the lake and devoured. Only his liver is rejected, and floats to shore. It is said that its skin is adhesive, and the rider cannot tear himself off it. It also appears sometimes as a gigantic bird and sometimes as a handsome young man (for a story about this transformation, see crodh mara). J.F.Campbell has a long passage devoted to the Each Uisge in Popular Tales of the West Highlands" (Vol.IV, pp.304-307).