Glaistig

On his back he wears a spotted lynx pelt, and he delights in high-pitched songs in a soft meadow where crocuses and sweet-smelling hyacinths bloom at random in the grass.

A Celtic spirit called the Green Maiden has persisted into modern day, known as the Glaistig.

She was described by one nineteenth century author as a vicious creature, half woman and half goat, who frequented lonely lakes and rivers and was much dreaded.

The Glaistig is often depicted as having gray skin, golden hair, and wearing a green dress to conceal her goaty legs.

As the minister of Tiree for the Church of Scotland, John Gregorson Campbell spent thirty years on the Hebridean island collecting stories of fairies and other supernatural entities entirely from oral sources in Gaelic.

He was not a folklorist by training, but rather a parish minister who understood that the world his congregants knew was disappearing.

Campbell wrote down many stories of the Glaistig.

Here's just one of them from his Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, published posthumously in 1900.