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18
Description of Lewis
by Captain John Dymes, 1630.
19
A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland
by Martin Martin, 1703.
20
The bulk of the information in this section comes from an article by W.C. MacKenzie.
21
Ibid.
22
Ibid.
23
Ibid.
24
Ibid.
25
Ibid.
26
A term coined by Scottish adventurer and explorer Ivan T. Sanderson and expanded in usage
by Bernard Heuvelmans, a Belgian-French zoologist. The term is from
kryptos
meaning
'hidden' and
zoology
meaning 'study of animals'.
27
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptid.
28
en.wikipedia.org/Hebridean_mythology_and_folklore.
29
Ring of Bright Water
by Gavin Maxwell.
30
Account from Orkneyjar,
www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/seabeasts.htm
. The Stronsay beast
details given by kind permission of Sigurd Towrie.
31
The exact source and further details are unclear.
