The mystery of Scottish water horses that kill people

In the legends of Scotland centuries ago, I often saw mention very dangerous for people water horses and kelpies. Overall this is a similar being, only Kelpie prefer rivers, marshes and small lakes, and water horses live in deep lakes.

Also there is a variant Kelpie named Ah-OSCE (Each-Uisge), which stands out with particular ferocity in the attack on the people. Nothing appears out of nowhere and Kelpie water horses no doubt was once a real prototype. That's just what animal it was? Some researchers believe that it could be a toothed whale like a killer whale, while others believe that it is about surviving to the ages of man a water dinosaur. The feature of kelpies and water horses that they can attack not only in water but also on shore. That is, it was clearly not a whale.

The mystery in the fact that the word "Kelpie" (Kelpie) of unknown origin. Some say that it may be distorted Gaelic word "calpa", which means a young cow (heifer). But how is a dangerous and murderous creature out of the water with the cows? It researchers the versions no.

Kelpie live in almost all the Scottish lakes, including the famous Loch ness and, by the way, the locals never confuse Kelpie with the monster Nessie, surely calling them different things. Kelpie have supernatural power to change its appearance. They may look like an ugly snake-like monster, and can be similar to horses and even human beings.

But in any guise their main goal is to lure a man closer, and then drag it into the water, into the deep and drown or strangle. But most kelpies and water horses look like horses and mainly attack lone travelers.

A typical story about a Kelpie is a story about how late in the night unwary traveler passed along the Bank of a pond and suddenly out of the water appeared a horse of an unusual design. The creature then began strongly to lure a person, including inviting him to ride on his back.

But Woe to those who, tempted by such. The creature immediately take him into a water pool and a man can't get off the horse even with a strong desire. He will sit on it like bewitched or put into a kind of trance. The researchers say that this form of witchcraft in common Kelpie with the fairies, which are also able to subjugate the human mind. Someone even believe that fairies and kelpies is essentially the same thing, only in different guises.

And that in fact you cannot kill a man (the bodies of the drowned Kelpie people are very often never found), and abducted and carried away in "your world". For what purpose is unknown. Here you can find coincidence with the abduction of people by aliens. According to some ufologists, the UFO phenomenon and aliens is actually the same medieval phenomenon of fairies and monsters, only presented in a different form. In fact, it's all just an illusion to fool the person, which adapts to the specific thinking of the era.

A thousand years ago people saw in the sky "flying wheels" and "flying towers", and the strange gray-green short people with big eyes seemed to them by fairies and demons. And now we see "flying saucers" and humanoid aliens.

The assumption of illusion may explain why Kelpie seen in different forms — this phenomenon was just adapted to what the best could be to seduce and lure a person. For young guys it probably seemed a beautiful girl with blowing through hair, for men are hardy, well-muscled horse, which dreams of every rider, for women it could be a mermaid or a child.

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