Formal pedigree name, Loch Ness Monster, but questions must have to be asked about the 'monster' credentials of any creature know by the endearment 'Nessie'.
Nessie sounds like your dear Grandma's sister.
Nessie also does not have a reputation (or a legend) for eating small children and making the dogs bark in the night, or kidnapping maidens and setting fire to whole villages. (Aside: you have to wonder how much human related pillaging was blamed on dragons in older times.)
Nessie is however known about around the world, a significant tourist attraction, the object of possibly the greatest expenditures on 'monster' hunting of all time......and elusive.
However, unlike other dragons and taniwha, Nessie has photographic portraiture so he or she (unless Nessie is some kind of hermaphrodite like an earthworm and deserves a new pronoun) must be REAL!
They are all real. Nessie is just more real.... do an image search in your favorite web browser....
Even if tourists don't meet Nessie in the flesh, they have at least visted the beautiful Loch Ness in Scotland and had a chance to appreciate the area and its history and culture (which might include leg-pulling as a sport.)
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Oh how I’d love to go to Scotland one day. It looks stunning
ReplyDeleteAnd who knows I might meet Nessie and get to share some stories over a dram of whiskey 🥃
Erm if you were drinking whiskey you would be in Ireland. Scotland has whisky
DeleteThey are both English transliterations - in Irish gaelic it would be uisce beatha. In Scots - uisge beatha . If my experience of Greek to English is anything to go by English transliterations are not entirely reliable sources of correct spelling.
DeleteTigger I am impressed with how impressed you are with Nessie. MOL MOL... if I could fly and could only pick one place to visit in my life, it would be Scotland. my maternal l great grand parents were from the area around Nessie and he/she was the subject of many tales. their last name was Urguhart and Hale
ReplyDeleteHow did we miss this?
ReplyDeleteGail would like to point out that Scotland has many lochs. Several are as beautiful or more so than Loch Ness, and all have fewer tourists!
Shhhh - and you should aim to keep them that way.
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ReplyDeleteWell, getting over the fact that somehow this post didn't show up in my reader and thank goodness I have a habit of looking back a page or two to see what other comments have been added... all that said, Hoorah for Nessie I say!!! Thanks for including it in your little series of monsters and dragons. Well-deserved and always worth noting that such critters are not always the baddies in a tale. Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
How could you do 'folklore long sinuous critturs, possibly with legs (fire optional)', without covering Nessie?
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