Glaistig Yokai

**Glaistig Yokai** are a variation of the Fairy Yokai who has the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a goat.

## Physical Appearance

Glaistig Yokai has the upper half of a woman and the lower half of a goat. Their appearances vary between these yokai. Some have the appearance of a beautiful lady. Some have the appearance of a goat-like hag. Some have the appearance of a small woman dressed in green. They have pale (often grey) skin, long golden hair and like many of the fairy races she often dressed in green, long flowing robe, which covered her goat half.

## Description

Glaistig Yokai are seen frequenting the lonely lochs and rivers in the Highlands of Scotland, and is sometimes describes as a half earth, half water sprite. These yokai are both benevolent and malevolent when it comes to their interactions with humans. Some glastigs can even take on the role of a Banshee Yokai. Wailing at the death of important people. They also lure men to their lairs via either song or dance, where they would then drink their blood, or throwing stones and leading travellers astray from their paths.

## Abilities

Here are the abilities that Glaistig Yokai can have in their arsenal:

* Aquatic Adaptation
* Blood Consumption
* Caprine Physiology
	+ Climbing
	+ Enhanced Agility
	+ Enhanced Dexterity
	+ Enhanced Endurance
	+ Enhanced Leap
	+ Enhanced Senses
		- Enhanced Balance
		- Enhanced Hearing
		- Enhanced Smell
		- Night Vision
	+ Enhanced Speed
	+ Hoof Protrusion
	+ Horn Protrusion
	+ Prey Instinct
* Child Caretaking Intuition
* Dance Manipulation
* Demon Physiology, Fairy Physiology or Spirit Physiology
* Siren Song

## Pop Culture

Glaistig have only appear in Blood Brothers and Pathfinder. All depicted as being a beautiful female with goat-like legs.

## Variations

### Fairy Yokai

Glaistig is a fairy-like creature who has the appearance of a human lady. They're connected to nature and are often seen wearing green.

## Life in the Hidden World

Glastig Yokai usually lives in solitary. Often living deep in the forest where they have a hut inside a tree. These yokai are both benevolent and malevolent. They don't really choose a side and they prefer being neutral. To some, they're evil yokai who would drain the blood of any man who had fallen under her singing or dancing. To others, they're more of a mischievous being for children and elderly. They're even entrusted to play with children while their mothers were milking the cows. The Glaistig was also closely linked to cattle, and in some forms is seen as a herder of domestic cattle, and of wild deer. Glastig Yokai has vast knowledge of magic. Specifically nature magic as they can control all of nature to their whim.

## Symbolism

The glaistig is an ambivalent ghost that appears in legend as both a malign and benign creature. Some stories have her luring men to her lair via either song or dance, where she would then drink their blood. Other such tales have her casting stones in the path of travellers or throwing them off course.

In other, more benign incarnations, the glaistig is a type of tutelary spirit and protector of cattle and herders, and in at least one legend in Scotland, the town of Ach-na-Creige had such a spirit protecting the cattle herds. The townsfolk, in gratitude, poured milk from the cows into a hollowed-out stone for her to drink. According to the same legend, her protection was revoked after one local youth poured boiling milk into the stone, burning her. She has also been described in some folklore as watching over children while their mothers milked the cows and fathers watched over the herds.

**The Green Lady**

Another rendition of the glaistig legend is that she was once a mortal noblewoman, to whom a "fairy" nature had been given or who was cursed with the goat's legs and immortality, and since has been known as "The Green Lady". She might either be benign, watching over houses and looking after the weak mind, or appear as a vengeful ghost. In some tales she was murdered in a green dress, and then stuffed unceremoniously up the chimney by a servant. It is said that her footsteps can still be heard as she walks the castle in sadness. Such Green Lady myths have been associated with a number of locations in Scotland, including Ardnacallich, Dunollie Castle, Loch Fyne, Muchalls Castle, and in Wales at Caerphilly. A similar tale ("Ocean Born Mary") has been told in Henniker, New Hampshire.