The Tarroo-Ushtey
- Item sets
- Folklore
- Name
- The Tarroo-Ushtey
- Description
- The water bull of Manx folklore. Part of a classified supernatural taxonomy recorded by Moore. Every body of water had its spirits, every landscape feature its associations. The Manx supernatural world was not random or chaotic. It was a mapped landscape of named beings with known territories and known behaviours.
- Manx Name
- Tarroo-Ushtey
- Place
- Isle of Man
- Period
- Celtic and Pre-Norse Period
- Type
- Creature
- Source
- Moore, Folk-lore (1891), Ch. IV
- Book Chapter
- Chapter 03 — 1405-1651