The Inner and Outer Hebrides contain many islands, isolated and mostly uninhabited. People in this part of Scotland have always relied on the sea to sustain them, and the sea is the source of many legends.
Hebridean mythology is catagorized into these types of entities: Water Spirits, Merpeople,
Water Monsters, Werewolves, Will.o'-the-wisp, and Faeries.
The Blue Men of the Minch are water spirits known as "storm kelpies" which occupy many lochs:
