Black Donald
Black Donald is the Scottish devil. He assumes many disguises and is often seen as an old man in a black suit. He is proficient at all jobs, except tailoring. It is because when he is among the tailors, they close up shop and he never learns how to baste.
Baste, to sew loosely with large running stitches so as to hold together temporarily. Black Donald's disguises never work because he cannot hide his cloven hooves.
The Selkie
The selkies are seaside faeries. They are found near to the Scottish lochs, the Hebrides and the Orkney Islands. Their appearance is that of a seal, but they are changelings. They have the power to shed their skin and appear as human males and females.
Selkies have very jealous natures and sometimes take human partners. They often tire of them and leave them to die with broken hearts. The selkies are believed to know the secrets of the oceans.
And finally, the most famous Scottish mythical creature of all ...
The Loch Ness monster
The Loch Ness Monster is one of the best known creatures in the world. Nessie, as she is affectionately called by her admiring believers is, however, an elusive creature. She has been sighted very rarely and is notoriously camera-shy. She lives in one of the voluminous
Most scientists and other experts are highly skeptical of the creature's existence. They dismiss the noted sightings as deliberate hoaxes or misidentification of known creatures or natural phenomena. The most common eyewitness description of Nessie is that of a plesiosaur.
The plesiosaur is a long-necked aquatic reptile that became extinct during the Cretaceous-Tertiary period. The supporters of the plesiosaur theory cite the survival of a fish called the coelacanth. It was assumed to have gone extinct along with the plesiosaur until it was rediscovered off the coast of Madagascar in 1938.
