Concept - Kelpie

Kelpies are awesome, really creepy dark-fae creatures which are beautiful, but deadly (like all dark-fae creatures, right?) that use that beauty to lure children to climb onto their backs, then dive under the water and drown them. And eat them. Of course. In most tales, the Kelpies fuse the child's skin to their own to trap them -- which seems too macabre and unnecessarily unnatural. In my version, they either use their long, finned tail (which is under the water here) or their tangled mane to trap the child. My Kelpie doesn't have eyes, either, which would be mostly useless under those marshy waters. They use touch and smell to hunt down their victims.