Cù-Sìth

Cù-Sìth is a Fae phantom hound recorded in Highland lore: vast and lupine in outline yet unnaturally light and insubstantial, often said to appear as a sea‑green or moss‑dark shape at the edge of peatland. Smell: the air where it passes carries damp heather, a sharp tang of ozone and salt, and the dry, mineral whisper of disturbed stone. Sound: a deep, distant bark — slow, resonant and almost musical — sometimes reported in a threefold pattern that echoes for miles; when close the padding of immense paws seems to come without earthly footfall. Temperature: an immediate, pricking cold that drains warmth from skin and lantern alike, as if the hound brings a pocket of moonlit winter with it. Notes from field observers stress the creature's uncanny ability to blur edges and to seem both present and not, like a shape remembered from the surface of a still loch.