Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall all share a common cultural bond ,hisorically they are all Celtic nations with a diverse, yet rich history of
folklore.
Fairies, dragons, banshees,woodland dwelling spirits and a plethora of other msterious entities. It goes without saying that all these mythological
entities or creatures do not exist nor ever existed in these lands.
What your resources document lies firmly in myth and legend and probabley deserves to to viewed as nothing more than folklore.
My great grandfather-an Irish migrant- used to tell tales of lepechauns and another group of entities he called 'The Boories', a group of entities
that huddled around the chimmny pot on cold autumnal and winter nights to keep warm. They safeguarded the entrance down the chimmny against malevolent
spirits entering the home should the fire burn out. Just like your wildmen they were certainly a cultural figment of folklore with no solid foundation
of fact to reinforce their existence.
Move on and treat this reference work as yet another fear inducing work of fiction from a bygone age.
www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk
[edit on 2/4/2006 by anglosaxon]
