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SCOTTOBER DAY 10: Nuckalavee
The wickedest and most evil of all fairies. The Nuckalavee is an invincible beast which crawls out the sea and breathes a plague.

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2022-10-11

SCOTTOBER DAY 9: Assipattle Assipattle is the laziest and strongest of his siblings. He used his laziness to kill the stoor worm in the least exhausting way. Work smarter, not harder.

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2022-10-09

SCOTTOBER DAY 8: Trow
Music loving little men of Shetland and Orkney. Their love of music drives them to kidnap musicians and force them to perform.

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2022-10-09

SCOT-TOBER DAY 7: The Rhynie man
Found on an old Pictish stone. It’s unknown wether he is a god, a creature, a demon or a local figure. Whoever they are, they were fearsome.

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2022-10-08

SCOTTOBER DAY 6: Life and death
Life and death take the forms of a ram with colours in all the wrong places and an old man with 12 eye.

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2022-10-07

SCOT-TOBER Day 5: Blue men of the Minch.
The blue men challenge all sailors in their waters to a battle of rhymes. If the sailors prove witty enough, they are allowed to pass.

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2022-10-05

SCOT-TOBER DAY4 4: Kelpie
The Each-Uisgue, the water horse. Disguising itself as a mare, it lures people on its back. It then it drives into the water to enjoy its new, soggy meat.

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2022-10-05

SCOT-TOBER: DAY 3: Bean Nighe (Ban-Shee)
The Bean Nighe takes the form of a washer woman. Those who see her will see their own bloody clothes, foretelling their death.

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2022-10-04

SCOT-TOBER DAY 2: Brownie
little house dwelling helpings creatures who subsist on butter. But when offended transform into disgusting and terrifying bogarts. A creature impossible to get rid of.

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2022-10-03

“Come ashore for rack and ruin havoc it brings, disease and drought. With killer breath he blows Mortasheen, a disease to strike horses. Of this land.” -The Book of Beasties

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2021-08-18

The water bull, called tarbh usige in Scottish Gaelic, is a mythological creature, resident of the moorland lochs.

Capable of shape-shifting into a human, it's more amiable than the water horse, but still fearful.



Art by SantosArt (DA)

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2021-07-30

Working on a couple of pages of a flashback section in the new issue of Angus the Haggis Slayer. It's also all written in auld Scots.

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2019-02-18

Yep even the sound of ice cracking in a lake or river in winter needs a more fantastical explanation

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2019-01-25