Shellycoat
Ringkasan
Shellycoat adalah roh air jahil dalam folklor Skotlandia dan Inggris Utara yang menghantui sungai dan aliran air, berselimut cangkang.
A shellycoat is a prankster water spirit of Scottish and Northern English folklore that haunts rivers and streams, covered in shells.
Kisah dan tradisi
Dalam folklor Skotlandia dan Inggris Utara, shellycoat (juga spellycoat) adalah roh air jahil yang menghantui sungai dan aliran air, terutama di pesisir timur Skotlandia. Tubuhnya berbulu panjang dan berkaki selaput; bulunya tertutup cangkang dan sampah laut yang berderak saat ia bergerak. Ia relatif tak berbahaya dibanding kelpie: ia menyesatkan pengembara tanpa niat jahat, sering berteriak seperti orang tenggelam lalu tertawa seperti kuda. Shellycoat konon tak dapat menyeberangi air mengalir dan membiarkan perempuan yang membawa anak. Shellycoat dari Leith digambarkan roh jahat besar yang dapat terbang, menyembunyikan mantel cangkangnya di bawah batu; seorang bernama English Dick yang menantangnya ditemukan dengan kaki patah. Batunya hancur saat pembangunan dermaga awal 1900-an. Jacob Grimm dalam Deutsche Mythologie menyamakannya dengan Schellenrock Jerman, "mantel lonceng".
In Scottish and Northern English folklore the shellycoat (also spellycoat) is a mischievous water spirit haunting rivers and streams, mostly on Scotland's east coast. It has long hair over its whole body and webbed feet, the hair hung with shells and sea debris that clatter as it moves. Compared with the kelpie it is fairly harmless: it leads wanderers astray without malice, often crying out as if drowning and then laughing like a horse. It is believed unable to cross running water and to leave women with children alone. The shellycoat of Leith was described as a large, evil spirit able to fly, hiding its magic coat of shells under a rock; a man called English Dick who challenged it was found with broken legs. Its rock was destroyed in dock building in the early 1900s. Jacob Grimm in his Deutsche Mythologie equated it with the German Schellenrock, 'bell-coat'.
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Skotlandia
- Kawasan / Region
- Eropa
- Negara / Country
- GB
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Spirit
- Habitat
- Water
Nama lain / Alternate names
spellycoat, Schellenrock
Tahukah kamu? / Did you know?
Cangkang pada bulu shellycoat berderak saat ia bergerak, sehingga kehadirannya terdengar.
The shells on a shellycoat's hair clatter as it moves, betraying its presence.