Rhapsodies

Todays Inktober challenge ran a little late due to a weird and rushed morning. So here we have today’s entry, the most terrifying of the Scottish Faerie folk, the Nuckelavee.

For the longest time all I knew about the Nuckelavee was from a single page from Fairies by Brian Froud and Alan Lee. All it said was it was a skinless giant that haunted the coast of orkney. This was accompanied by a terrifying picture of it’s skinless arm reaching for a cliche victorian flower fairy.

I later learned it was also part horse like a centaur except the human bit was merged with the horse where a rider usually sits . I find myself imagining it the personification of a nighttime storm crashing against the coastline. The thought of one of these things running you down on a beach would be the stuff of nightmares.