Beauty shines in a myriad of colors.

Grace moves in a long tail that waves in the water.

Intelligent gleams in the dark of a piercing little eyes.

Cruelty leaps from their sharp tiny fangs.

The Shopiltee,

As a rule, the mythical lake creatures of northern Europe are monstrous and have nothing to do with members of the Fae or energies from the spiritual world, but there are exceptions to this rule, like thee Kelpies, Fuath, Glashans and Shopiltees.

These four groups of magical creatures have more in common that their habitat—they are all water spirits—since they all take on the form of a horse when they need to go on dry land. The Scottish Kelpie and Fuath are said to take the form of normal or giant size horse on dry land, while the...

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