There are plenty of unsettling creatures in Scottish folklore, but none quite like The Boneless...

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https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20211022-why-were-so-terrified-of-the-unknown

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Boneless_(folklore)

https://archive.org/stream/BriggsKatharineMaryAnEncyclopediaOfFairies/Briggs%20Katharine%20Mary%20-%20An%20encyclopedia%20of%20fairies_djvu.txt

https://www.scaryforkids.com/boneless/

https://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/selcie/2017/03/10/jessie-saxby-1842-1940-shetlands-first-childrens-writer/#_edn4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Saxby