...deeplyrooted Celtic belief which clothes every dark object with the dreaded form of the each uisge. . . . The bay or grey horse grazes at the lake-side, and...horses to bits ; he is killed and nothing remains but a * Manx Dictionary. pool of water ; he falls in love with a lady, and when he appears as a man and lays...

...at p. Ixxxvi of his Introduction to the WH Tales, he says, in his description of the Water-Horse, " He is harnessed to a plough, and drags the team and...plough into the loch, and tears the horses to bits." In the MacInnes Tales there appears an " uncommon beast that would swallow a team of six horses, the...

...by hundreds of Manx people of their wonderful fairy water-horse is about as follows: The bay or gray horse grazes at the lakeside, and when he is mounted,...suit any number; men's hands stick to his skin; he is killed, and nothing remains but a pool of water. He falls in love with a lady, and when he appears...

...bogle. The bay or grey horse 11 F S. Wilde, ed. cit.. ViaL I, pp. 1 78-83. 11 Ibid., pp. 205-6. gra2es at the lakeside, and when he is mounted, rushes into...suit any number; men's hands stick to his skin; he is hamessed to a plough, and drags the team and plough into the loch, and tears the horses to bits; he...

...by hundreds of Manx people of their wonderful fairy water-horse is about as follows: The bay or gray horse grazes at the lakeside, and when he is mounted,...suit any number; men's hands stick to his skin; he is killed, and nothing remains but a pool of water. He falls in love with a lady, and when he appears...