Glashtyn
Sign in to savethumb|300px|A glashan featured in an Irish folktale retelling. Glashtyn (Manx English: glashtin, glashtan or glashan; or ) is a legendary creature from Manx folklore.
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Lexicography
- Celtic Manx language
- Manx English
- Definitions
- Shapeshifter theory
- Reversed hooves
- Folklore attestations
- Water horse
- Seducer of women
- Cutting the grabbed hem off dress motif
- Rooster's crowing
- Fairy fiddler
- Helpful spirit
- Similar or conflated mythical creatures
- Tarroo-ushtey
- Cabbyl-ushtey
- See also
- Explanatory notes
- References
- External links
thumb|300px|A glashan featured in an Irish folktale retelling. Glashtyn (Manx English: glashtin, glashtan or glashan; or ) is a legendary creature from Manx folklore.
The glashtin is said to be a goblin that appears out of its aquatic habitat, to come in contact with the island folk; others claim it takes the shape of a colt, or equate it to the water horse known locally as cabbyl-ushtey. Yet another source claims the glashtin was a water-bull (tarroo-ushtey in Manx), half-bovine and half-equine.
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