Top 10 Creepy Irish Myths and Legends

Top 10 Creepy Irish Myths and Legends

The Emerald Isle is home to some of the world’s most interesting tales and supernatural concepts. From the fabled leprechaun, to the Children of Lir, to Merrows, these supernatural creatures are interesting, but downright terrifying! WatchMojo counts down ten creepy Irish myths and legends.

#10: The Leprechaun
#9: The Children of Lir
#8: Merrows
#7: Balor of the Evil Eye
#6: Fear Dearg
#5: Each-uisge or Aughisky
#4: The Demon Bride
#3, #2 & #1???

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[alottatroubs]

Coming from an Irish person, the narrator really butchered most of the pronunciation of Irish words used in this video

[dhouse]

There are a few good ones you missed. There was Cú chulainn, one of the greatest warriors to exist, when he was a child he killed an irish wolfhound with a hurley stick, when he was older he fought off an entire army by fighting a champion at a time, as he was dying he tied himself to a rock in order to keep fighting, the enemy was afraid to go near him until a crow landed on him and pecked at him.
Another big character is Morrigan, a woman with the ability to shape shift into animals like wolves and snakes, shes referenced in Assassins creed Rogue when Shay names his ship after her. Some stories say she is the reason for Cú chulainn's death because she poisoned him the before he went to fight.
There's Finn mcCool a giant from, you guessed it, the Giant's causeway. Finn had a rivalry with another giant from scotland, one day he saw the scotish giant so he picked up a piece of land making a crater that would become loch neah and threw it at the giant, but it missed, landed in the ocean and created the Isle of Man. He then made the Giant's causeway so he could fight the other giant but when saw that the scottish giant was bigger than him he hid at home. When the scottish giant decided to go to Finn's house, Finn's wife dressed Finn up as a baby and when the scottish giant saw Finn he thought he was Finn's baby and assumed that Finn must have been huge, so he ran home destroying the causeway behind him.

[DMJC]

Holy mother of God some of these pronunciations sweet jaysus!!!

[mathm]

I’m Irish and I decided to learn about Irish folklore, it’s a lot more disturbing than this list alone. There are meant to be horses that have no skin with the torso of a man with an in proportioned body with no skin also that come out of the sea during the winter and breath deadly gasses that killed everything it touches (probably the ancient Irish way of explaining why all the plants died in the winter)

[mrCQB]

I remember my mother explaining to me a time when her grandfather told her a story about an encounter he claimed to have had with An Dúllahan, or the headless horseman as it's widely known. Disclaimer; neither she nor myself believe in the supernatural, but the weird thing is that he didn't either until that day apparently. Don't know if I believe it still but it's interesting nonetheless. Story goes he couldn't sleep one night, so he went for a walk around 3am in countryside Galway where he lived at the time. He owned a large field and thought he'd take a stroll through it. He says all of a sudden a very large and thick blanket of fog rose into the field and the stars and moon seemed to vanish, and at that moment he heard hooves clopping through the thicket and some metallic clattering. He was terrified of course and started to run back the direction he came from, and as he did the sounds of pacing turned to galloping behind him, and grew louder, followed by a sword unsheathing. As he kept running without looking behind, he realised that he should have reached the gate by now, so he guessed that he has entered the horseman's realm so to speak... I believe the legend goes if you enter an area with him in it, alone, you cannot escape. Nonetheless he continued running and suddenly the fog cleared and the sounds died out instantly, and next thing he heard was a neighbour shouting out for him to find where he was. Accordingly the neighbour came to aid when he heard my great grandfather screaming in terror. I suppose it's because he wasn't alone anymore that the horseman vanished? Sorry if this is cringey to read, I just thought it was a pretty cool story true or not.

[Lesley_RedRhody]

Darby O'Gill and the Little People is one of my favorite films (the Irish pronunciation of that word is adorable, by the way)! Albert Sharpe reminds me so much of my Maternal Grandfather... sans the Ginger hair he graciously passed down to me.
💚🇮🇪🍀💚

[ale_k]

That leprechaun movie is fucking hilarious😂he killed them with a pogo stick!!!!

[mr.beefyboidoody]

6:34 literally every bad relationship ever

[francismckay]

You clearly have no idea as to what the banshee means.... Growing up in a small town middle of nowhere in ireland, you have no perception of quiet, or silent, or middle of the night general quietness, but it is terrifying. Just in case, we don't mention her, we don't want to make her real...

[scareleague]

8:03 when you trying to swat a random mosquito flying around your room.

[kayla-vnyc]

Aye, Ireland is great! If you visit Belfast, a common phrase you will use will be "up the ra" it means hello how are you

[robbieking]

Kelpies are indeed dangerous. Don't you know the story? There were once six children who encountered a white horse near a lake. It invited the children to ride it back home. Five mounted it's back while the sixth settled for petting its nose. At that moment those horse's skin turned jet black and sticky like tar and its face rotted into a hideous skull before it dove into the lake. The child who pet its nose was forced to cut off their own hand to escape but the other five were drowned and devoured. The kelpie is a true monster

[weinerberg]

Americans be like oh my dads cousins sons friend is Irish so I'm Irish

[ChaosP]

I was actually expecting some of the more disturbing stories about _Cú Chulainn, _ especially those _ríastrad_ moments.

[JordanJSparks]

I hope if you're reading this that you are having an amazing St. Patricks day <3

[greenrobot]

Including clips from Bride of Chucky is a bit confusing

[eljefe]

i love creepy stuff, and st patrick's day. Thank you for making a great video.

[pundertalefan]

I loved Darby O Gill and the Little People when I saw it! Nice job using its clips here. :03

[Wickedfan]

I'm actually half Irish and half Native American on my moms side, so these myths are interesting to me. I also have a little bit of German in my family.

[getterbucked]

"Oh yeah my great great great great great great grandfather moved to America from ireland so I'm Irish"

Na ladd your only Irish if you were born on the Irish island. 🇮🇪