Gentle Annis

A weather spirit in Scottish tradition. She is thought to drive the southwesterly gales on Cromarty Firth in the Highlands. Gentle Annis — whose name is clearly a mollifying one — has blue-black skin and resembles the cailleach.

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References

Source

  • MacKillop, James. (2004). Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.