This article is about the mythological creature. For the dog breed, see Australian Kelpie. For the movie, see The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. The kelpie is a supernatural shape-shifting water horse from Celtic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland and Ireland. It generally has grayish black fur, and will appear to be a lost pony, but can be identified by its constantly dripping mane. its skin is like that of a seal but is deathly cold to the touch. In Orkney a similar creature was called the Nuggle, and in Shetland a similar creature was called the Shoopiltee. It also appears in Scandinavian folklore where in Sweden it is known by the name Bäckahästen, the brook horse. In Norway it is called nøkken, where the horse shape is often used, but is not its true form. If it kills someone nowhere near a body of water, it will spill more blood than at the average murder. This article is about the dog breed; for the aquatic creature from Celtic mythology, see kelpie. ...
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History and mythology In Scottish folklore, a kelpie would lure people onto its back and then dive into a deep lake to drown its unfortunate rider. A kelpie if bridled by a human might be forced to do the bidding of the rider but if the bridle should slip then the unfortunate soul would find themselves in a watery grave.[1]
The kelpie sometimes appeared as a rough hairy man who would grip and crush travellers, but it most commonly took the form of a beautiful tame horse standing by a stream or river. If anyone mounted it, it would charge into the deepest part of the water, submerging and taking the rider with it. They would sometimes interbreed with humans' horses, and the foals were said to be fine fleetfooted horses. The kelpie was also said to warn of forthcoming storms by wailing and howling. Rarely, kelpies could be benign. The folktale The Kelpie's Wife tells of one in Loch Garve, Ross-shire, who had a human wife. The Jethro Tull song Kelpie, from the 1988 album 20 Years Of Jethro Tull, tells of a young woman tempted away by a kelpie. [1] Ross-shire (Siorrachd Rois in Gaelic), or simply Ross, is a traditional county of Scotland bordering on Sutherland, Cromartyshire (of which it contains many enclaves), Inverness-shire and on an exclave of Nairnshire. ...
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According to the Swedish naturalist and author Bengt Sjögren (1980), the present day belief in lake monsters in for example Loch Ness, is associated with the old legends of kelpies. Sjögren claims that the accounts of lake-monsters have changed during history. Older reports often talk about horse-like appearances, but more modern reports often have more reptile and dinosaur-like-appearances, and Bengt Sjögren concludes that the legends of kelpies evolved into the present day legends of lake-monsters where the monsters "changed the appearance" to a more "realistic" and "modern" version since the discovery of dinosaurs and giant aquatic reptiles from the horse-like water-kelpie to a dinosaur-like reptile, often a plesiosaur. Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now often viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines of integrative organismal biology. ...
Lake monster, loch monster, or leviathan is the name given to large unknown animals which have purportedly been sighted in, and/or are believed to dwell in lakes or lochs, although their existence has never been confirmed scientifically. ...
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Dale Drinnon identifies the traditional Kelpie or water horse with a moose (European elk) and shows how several water monster reports refer to this animal, including sightings at Loch Ness, at his yahoo group, the Frontiers of Zoology
[ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frontiers-of-zoology/ ] The water horse is known in many countries:
- In Welsh folklore, a Ceffyl Dŵr is a water horse similar to the Kelpie. In Wales although he has no wings he is still able to fly. He may be seen above a pool or waterfall or occasionally grazing on the bank. He sometimes allows himself to be caught and mounted, but he is full of pranks and delights in tossing his rider to the ground. In Welsh folklore, a Ceffyl Dŵr is a water horse similar to the Kelpie. ...
- In Scandinavia, the brook horse was a transformation of the Nix, a water spirit in the shape of a man. It was often described as a majestic black horse that would appear near rivers, particularly during foggy weather. Anyone who climbed onto its back would not be able to get off again. The horse would then jump into the river, drowning the rider. The brook horse could also be harnessed and made to plough, either because it was trying to trick a person or because the person had tricked the horse into it. For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ...
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Kelpie Legends The following tale is a good illustration of the brook horse: | “ | A long time ago, there was a girl who was not only pretty but also big and strong. She worked as a maid on a farm by Lake Hjärtasjön in southern Nerike. She was ploughing with the farm's horse on one of the fields by the lake. It was springtime and beautiful weather. The birds chirped and the wagtails flitted in the tracks of the girl and the horse in order to pick worms. All of a sudden, a horse appeared out of the lake. It was big and beautiful, bright in color and with large spots on the sides. The horse had a beautiful mane which fluttered in the wind and a tail that trailed on the ground. The horse pranced for the girl to show her how beautiful he was. The girl, however, knew that it was the brook horse and ignored it. Then the brook horse came closer and closer and finally he was so close that he could bite the farm horse in the mane. The girl hit the brook horse with the bridle and cried: "Disappear you scoundrel, or you'll have to plough so you'll never forget it." As soon as she had said this, the brook horse had changed places with the farm horse, and the brook horse started ploughing the field with such speed that soil and stones whirled in its wake, and the girl hung like a mitten from the plough. Faster than the cock crows seven times, the ploughing was finished and the brook horse headed for the lake, dragging both the plough and the girl. But the girl had a piece of steel in her pocket, and she made the sign of the cross. Immediately she fell down on the ground, and she saw the brook horse disappear into the lake with the plough. She heard a frustrated neighing when the brook horse understood that his trick had failed. Until this day, a deep track can be seen in the field. | ” | | | — (Hellström 1985:16) |
Into the West The film , Into the West, features a Kelpie. Ossie, the youngest of the two brothers, has a Kelpie come to him so as to unite the broken family of himself, his brother and father. Ossie imagines that the Kelpie is his mother's soul. The Kelpie is a white mare, who true to her nature, can jump amazing lengths and heights. Also true to her nature, she also nearly lures Ossie to a watery grave, recalling the Kelpie legend as well as the legend of Ossian's Ride. Into the West is a 1992 film about Irish Travellers, directed by Mike Newell and written by Jim Sheridan. ...
However Ossie is saved by the ghost of his mother, and the love of his brother and father.
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See also In Celtic Mythology, a Each uisge is a water spirit, in Ireland called the Aughisky, and is analogous with the Kelpie, but far more dangerous. ...
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References - ^ Katharine Briggs, An Encyclopedia of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Brownies, Boogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures, "Kelpie", p 246. ISBN 0-394-73467-X
- Sjögren, Bengt, Berömda vidunder, Settern, 1980, ISBN 91-7586-023-6 (Swedish)
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