Maighdean Uaine

The maighdean uaine is a Gaelic term that means "green maiden". The green maidens are also well known as Green Ladies, for they have been seen as ghosts haunting various places around the British Isles. These famous landmarks for the Green Ladies are in many castles, including Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Knock Castle at the Isle of Skye, Ashintully Castle in Perthshire Scotland and Longleat in Somerset, England. Another name for them is Glaistig as they're called in the Scottish Highlands. They can be considered either scary or benign. 

They always appear as beautiful women dressed in green although its believed by some that if they show up, it's a sign of death. The Scottish green maidens can be like banshees and they tend to have faun features, with the upper torsos of women and lower bodies of goats. They cover their lower selves with flowing green gowns. In other versions they look human with golden hair, grey complexions and dressed all in green. They scream and wail when they're noticed. She's nicknamed a "water imp" as she appears alone beside rivers, streams and lochs in the Scottish Highlands. Described as both a spirit of earth and water, she also is a trickster being. The more sinister versions of the maighdean uaine are similar to vampires. They lure men to their seductive beauty, their dancing and enchanting singing voices, just so that they can drink their blood. Stones have been placed to alter paths so travellers avoid going near the green maidens of death. But they're not all so bad.

The glaistig are considered guardians spirits. These green maidens care for the cattle and also as well protecting farmers and herders. The green maidens have played around in the fields with village children as their mothers milk the cows. People put out fresh milk in stone basins or wooden bowls for the green maidens because the gleistig protect the cattle. But then one day in the village of Ach-na-Creige on the Isle of Mull, a troublemaker from a village poured boiled milk into the stone, which burned the mouth of a green maiden when she drank it. For this wicked prank, the glaistig went away and abandoned the cattle in that place. Another legend has a green maiden swapping cattle for deer to help hunters, so she's known as friend and guardian of cattle and deer, and also goddess of the hunt.

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