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The Blue Men of the Minch

Sound of Shiant, Outer Hebrides

Sea creatures who sank ships unless the captain could finish their rhymes.

Hebridean sailors told of the Blue Men, blue-skinned creatures who lived in the strait between Lewis and the Shiant Islands. They would rise beside a ship and shout two lines of a poem.

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When
Folklore
Where
57.8900, -6.3500
Group
Dragons & monsters

Visiting

Boat trips from Tarbert or Scalpay visit the Shiant Islands' seabird colonies.

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