Urisk
Also called Uruisg, Peallaidh.
The urisk is a half-goat, half-human solitary fairy of Highland waterfalls — hideous enough to frighten mortals away, and desperately lonely because of it.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Scottish folklore
- Region
- Scottish Highlands (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Hearth-Bound
- Symbols
- Goat
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Symbols
Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.
- Goat is image-domain The goat denotes untamed lust and fertility, sacred to Pan and Dionysus, nurturing as milk-giver and driven out as bearer of a people's sins.
why
The urisk is a half-goat, half-human solitary fairy of Highland waterfalls — hideous enough to frighten mortals away, and desperately lonely because of it.
Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Behaviour
- Aids household or construction tasks for the respectful
why
Like the brownie he resembles — the collectors file him beside it as the Highlands' rough hairy spirit — the urisk attaches to households and farms, herding, threshing, and doing heavy work for the families that tolerate him, and the type is fixed in the poetry of the region as a haunter of lonely linns.