A Lowland water-bogle described by Scott in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. He frequented fresh-water streams, and was festooned about with shells which clattered when he moved. Scott has a tale of two men being led all one dark night up the banks of the river Ettrick by a voice calling dolefully from the stream, 'Lost! Lost!' By daybreak they had reached the source, when Shellycoat leapt out from the spring and bounded down the other side of the hill with loud bursts of laughter. Like the Picktrce Brag and the Hedley Kow, Shellycoat delights in teasing, tricking and bewildering human beings, without doing them actual harm; and like Robin Goodfellow, he applauds his success with loud laughter.

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