Bestiary #001: A Year To the Day

It’s exactly a year since I started a little side project of mine. I wanted to cultivate a Bestiary of my own. I suppose I’ll keep it up until it no longer captivates me. That interest hasn’t waned in the past year, so I have a nice collection of beasties to share. I’ll update the monsters weekly with their pertinent information, for those interested.

Obviously, I’ve taken artistic liberties. Hopefully they’ll average more of a boon than a bust.

Name(s): Fauth

Country of Origin: Scotland

Description: Fauth means “hate” or “horror”. It’s actually a classification of a range of rancorous Scottish fairies. They can be found in any body of water. Generally they will be green, either from clothes or scales. They may have webbed limbs and yellow manes and tails. They lack noses, so their eyes are especially sharp. Some can assume a human form and have tricked men and woman into marriage. More often, they’ll wait for an unsuspecting soul to travel close to water and drag them under, drowning them.

Sources:

“Fuath”. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Web. 30 Dec. 2013.

Sedgwick, Paulita. “Fuath”. Mythological Creatures: A Pictorial Dictionary. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. Print.

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