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Published: 2009-01-22 00:23:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 25398; Favourites: 247; Downloads: 10062
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There is no thing, living or un-living, or that has lived or will live that hates like the Nuckelavee. Accounts vary of this brutal Scottish fae, but each account makes clear the pure, unrelenting brutality of the thing, and it's only desire to devour and destroy.If pursued by the skinless horse and rider, there is safety on the other side of running water. Cross a stream and it cannot follow, but it is difficult to outrun, brutal when confronted, and overall perhaps the most cruel and mindlessly vicious of the unseelie court.
If you are interested, a good site with more information on the monster is available here: [link]
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I know I'm late to the party here but DAYUM this is good
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Oh man are they ever. There's something not RIGHT with that mythology, but dang if it isn't fun to work with.
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I'd like permission to use this picture of your's in a post. I'll give you full credit and post not only to this page but to your DeviantArt profile in general. Would that be okay with you?
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Certianly, help yourself! Thank you for asking and crediting.
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I love to see someone do a piece on the more obscure mythological / folkloric critters. I mean, vampires and dragons are done to death, but not many know about nuckelavee... or kikimora... or penanggalan... or flying heads... or bonnacon... or draugr...
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Thank you! I really love the more obscure critters and I'm always fascinated by the stranger realms of folklore and myth in the world. I mean indeed the bigger better known creatures are great but the variety of things is wonderful.
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Might we see more obscure mythological critters from you in the future?
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Oh yes indeed! I can't say for certian what or when, but knowing my interests things are bound to show up sooner or later.
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Or cryptids? Personally, I love me some chpacabra- the original Puerto Rican version, not those sad little mangy dog things (which are actually 'Elmendorf beasts' not chupacabras)!
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Ooh possibly. I'm always tempted to do something with the (?) Mothman or other unusual alien/ufo encounters. I miss the chupacabra phase of the 90s/00s when the depictions were a lot freakier than the mistaken mangy dogs.
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Elmendorf beasts 
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It is my mission in life to educate people on the difference between chupacabras and Elmendorf beasts!
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A true and noble mission!
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This is amazing. Somehow, your nuckelavee seems darker and almost more real than the other pictures I've seen. Really good job!
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Ah, the Nuckelavee. One of my favorite monsters of folklore, and without a doubt the only member of the Fair Folk I possess any degree of fondness for. Insta-faved!
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They are a hell of a thing, that is to be sure. Thank you very much!
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You by far have created THE BEST NUCKELAVEEE PIC EVER!!!
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Great work, although the head is usually said to be larger. Otherwise a very faithful and chilling rendition of this amazing monster.
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Thank you very much! Man there's a lot of info on them, and while I do realize the head is often described as too large and lolling about the neck without neck strength enough to support it, but for reasons I can't recall, opted to not include it (possibly as it was left out of the variation of the research I was looking at at the time, though I don't recall my source). If I were to go about it again, I think I would get that in there as well, as it does further add to the unsettlingness of it. Thank you again! They're definitely fascinating things and I will have to look into drawing one again.
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That'd be cool. Have you ever done Jenny Greenteeth or Black Annis, 'cause both of them totally deserve as awesome paintings as this.
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Ooh, I have not done so yet but I really need to. I'll definitely try to remember to fit in some more wicked seelie things in the drawing time.
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Hot damn. I love this picture so much. I've been researching nuckelavees lately, and this is GORGEOUS.
(Also, um, I'm not sure if you're aware or are worried about this sort of thing, but I found a Blogger entry about nuckelavees using your picture : [link] . Not sure if you gave permission or if that's a concern of yours, but I wanted to let you know.)
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Thank you! They're really wonderful mythology.
Thank you for letting me know, I've been having a bit of trouble with this sort of thing recently, I don't mind a lot but I do like a link back to my work, I'll see if I can't rustle that up from them. It's certainly a concern of mine and they did not contact me, thank you for letting me know!
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Jesus fuck, that's some Guillermo del Toro shit right there.
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Out of the seas around Scotland and into your nightmares 
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Bloody hell, that is a terrifying and skillful rendering of a Nuckelavee. Brilliant!! And horrofyingly awesome...
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Thank you very much! They're wicked beasties and definitely fun to draw.
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I am amazed, and long for the skill you have expressed here.
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Thank you very much! It seems to mostly be a matter of time and practice, keep at things, and they always move forward.
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I can only give the full names of two things that i would fear running into on a dark and stormy night more than this guy.
That means i think he's scary.
A lot.
Well, that weren't gramaticly correct.
But you get my point.
yeah...
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Thank you, the Nuckelavee is a true terror, one of the few truly evil things out there, and I sure as hell woulden't want to encounter one either.
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Hah! Not sure that's the best idea... I think he'd be a bit... sticky.
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