Kelpie horse art

“Kelpie is a shape-shifting water spirit inhabiting the lochs and pools of Scotland. It has usually been described as a black horse, but is able to adopt human form. Kelpies take their victims into the water, stoke or even devour them. 💀🐎🌿”

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Kelpie horse

The Bäcka horse from Scandinavian folklore, made for our studios monthly art challenge

Well, some of you may recall that I was going on about drawing kelpies at some point a while back. I did this quick little study of this handsome fellow... Kelpie head study

By Celtic Botan The Kelpie is a water spirit that inhabits the Lochs of Scotland, or so the legend is told. This creature shapeshifts between the form of a horse and a human, often times a woman. I…

Water kelpie or just kelpie is a shape-shifting water spirit originating from Scotland. It inhabits pools and streams, nearly every big body of water in Scotland has a kelpie story, the most well known being that of Loch Ness. It usually appears in the shape of horse but can take the human form, this is where the association with the Christian idea of Satan. In the late 19th century an interest in transcribing folklore came about, the recorders were inconsistent in their spelling and the…