The most famous of all Irish mythological creature. This renowned trickster collects gold and hides it at the end of a rainbow.
Irish bean-sidhe, meaning woman of the fairy. This creature is ancestral spirit that forewarns of death. She can be seen by rivers washing blood from the clothes of the soon to be deceased.
The most feared type of Irish fairy. They are violent tricksters who emerge solely at night. Pookas often take the form of a black horse who stampede at night trampling fences, properties and crops.
The name merrow translates to sea maid. They are not to be confused with mermaids as they have human-like legs instead of a tail.Some say her abilities come from a red cap while others claim it comes from a seal skin cape.
This mythological creature can be one of three things. However, they all have old, wrinkled, yellow skin and screech all day and night. They feed on good fortune and find joy in disaster striking their adopted family. Truly any parent’s nightmare.
They trap their victims in a room and use their ventriloquist skills to project inhuman noises around their victim. Their most terrifying noise is the laugh of a dead man. These mythological creatures have also been connected to the stealing of human babies to be replaced with changelings. They are associated with nightmares and find delight in terror.
This creature appear as walking corpses. With their protruding bones, deathly skinniness, blueish skin and rotting flesh they truly are a terrifying sight. They wander during famine asking whoever they encounter for food. Those who give the *Creature's Name* food are rewarded with lifelong wealth and prosperity, those who do not will suffer bad luck and poverty.
This is another Irish death omen. This creature is a headless man riding a black horse wearing a black cape. In his left hand he holds his grinning head. They do not take kindly to onlookers. If a Dullahan catches you looking he will either blind you in one eye using his whip or cover you in blood.
There was once a magical Irish tyrant who enforced great cruelties on his people. He has been known to drink the blood of his victims. Some say that he is the inspiration behind Dracula.
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