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Glad to here she arrived safely in the end worf! Good things come to ye who waits hey!
Hope you get on well with it bud.
Sorry I'm late to the party Andrew, I have late shift this week and just got home.
I'm glad to hear you received your hellhound:)
For our members that don't have a liking for mythology(Ya'll should have played D&D as kids)
Scottish legends: The Cu Sith - Folkrealm StudiesA Harbinger of death
The Cu Sith was feared as a harbinger of death. In a similar way the Grim Reaper appears at death to lead the soul to the afterlife, so the Cu Sith takes the soul to the fairy realm, or underworld. The hound is said to have hunted silently for its victim but would sometimes rend the air with three blood-curdling yowls that carried for a great distance and even far out over the sea. Who ever heard the howling of the beast had to reach a place of safety by the third howl or be killed by the sheer terror.
When this was heard men would lock up women who were nursing babies. This was to prevent the Cu Sith from stealing them away to the fairy world where they would be made to give up their milk to feed the children of the daoine sìth, or the fairies who were often believed to be the forefathers of the gods and goddesses of nature. They were said to live in fairy mounds which was the visible aspect and entrance of their realm which was a kind of parallel universe existing alongside the world of human beings.