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Name
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The Glashtyn
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Description
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A hairy goblin or sprite of similar character to the Phynnodderee but more unpredictable. Cregeen defined the Glashtyn as a goblin or sprite. He frequented lonely spots and was useful to people or otherwise as the caprice of the moment led him. The name also applied to the water-horse, the Cabbyl-Ushtey, a shape-shifting creature who could appear as a handsome young man to lure victims, then transform and drag them into the water. The people around Glen Meay believed the glen below the waterfall was haunted by the spirit of a man who mistook the Glashtyn for an ordinary horse, mounted it, and was carried into the sea and drowned.
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Manx Name
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Glashtyn
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Type
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Creature
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Hobgoblin
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Source
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Moore, Folk-lore (1891), Ch. IV
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Cregeen, Manx Dictionary
