There are fairies named Glaistig in Scottish folklore. They are half a woman and half a goat. They can be kind or evil. Kind Glaistigs care for children and old men, look after pets. To thank Glaistig, it is enough to put a bowl with milk on the thresh-old of the house in the evening. Evil Gleystigs are blood-thirsty and hate people. They have female heads and trunks and goat hoofs instead of legs hidden by long green dresses. These dresses are sewed with gold threads. The women are so beautiful that hardly anyone can refuse them to have a dance. While dancing they will drink all human’s blood. All Gleystigs both kind and evil are able to fly and walk on the water like on the ground.

Evil Gleystigs are blood-thirsty and hate people. They have female heads and trunks and goat hoofs instead of legs hidden by long green dresses. These dresses are sewed with gold threads. The women are so beautiful that hardly anyone can refuse them to have a dance. While dancing they will drink all human’s blood. All Gleystigs both kind and evil are able to fly and walk on the water like on the ground.

Gremlins in English folklore are very harmful beings, haters of any equipment. They break all kinds of machines. They resemble a hybrid of a rabbit with a bull terri-er of about 50 centimeters height. They are dressed in green trousers and red jacket. Gremlins have webby paws so they move very quietly. Gremlins often play tricks on people.

In the Northern regions of England in the swamps and flooded areas of the plains you can meet a werewolf called Danny. The creature often appears as a horse, sometimes it can be a donkey. Less often Danny looks like a person. It also likes to play bad tricks on travelers. Being in a good mood, Danny often helps people, brings home the lost children, cares for the sick and frees the forest animals caught in traps.

Baggeyn is an awful werewolf in the folklore of the Isle of Man. It hates people and harms them in any possible way. Baggeyn can grow to the giant sizes and take any appearance. It can pretend to be a human but if you look more attentively it is possible to notice the ears and horse hoofs.

In English folklore there is a mortal werewolf Grant that often looks like a horse. At the same time it goes on hind legs and its eyes are like a flame. It can be seen in the street at midnight. Meeting with Grant foretells misfortune - the fire or some-thing like that. It is said that Grant was seen in London before both tragedies in the 17th century -the epidemic of plague and the Great fire.

It is widely known that Hobbits have been thought up by the English writer John Tolkien. But actually they were known very long time ago. They are one of the kindest fairies in English mythology. Hobbits are modest and very ancient. They love peace and rest and work on cultivated land. They prefer prospering rural areas. They have sharp-sighted eyes and delicate ears. They tend to completeness and don't wish to fuss on trifles. However they are fast in movements. Hobbits are smaller than gnomes but not so fat. Hobbits put on clothes of bright colors and most of all they like yellow and green. Hobbits don't wear boots because skin on their feet is rough and rigid. Their feet are covered with thick curly hair. The faces of hobbits, as a rule, are rather good-natured, lips are always ready to stretch in a smile. Hobbits are hospi-table hosts. They like holidays and gifts which they willingly give and get with pleas-ure. In old times they spoke the language of people.

There is a fairy Topotun in the English folklore. Meeting with it foretells mis-fortune and even death. Sometimes it is heard as it walks about in the wood with heart-breaking cries. Usually Topotun is invisible, but sometimes it appears among people as a big black dog with flat eyes and long dense fur.

Werewolf is a monster that is able to turn into animals and humans. They are almost immortal. However, they can be killed if they are mortally wounded in a heart or brain. It is believed that silver is also deadly to Werewolf.

Monster Akheron is a very unusual character from Irish mythology that swal-lows damned souls of sinners. This Monster is above any mountain of Ireland and its body is covered with scales. Its mouth is huge and open expecting new victims all the time.

In English folklore Bargest is a horned being with sharp canines and claws. Bargest can change its appearance, but most often takes a form of a shaggy black dog with big eyes that burn with a flame. Meeting with Bargest usually foretells misfor-tune and even death. At night they wander in the streets of the cities and villages and prevent people from sleeping with heart-rending cries.