The Cù Sìth – Scotland’s Otherworld Hound of the Highlands

High in the Scottish Highlands, where the wind carries voices older than any clan, there is a creature spoken of only in whispers.
A hound the size of a bull.
Fur as dark as peat.
Eyes glowing green like sea-fire.
And a howl that can stop a heart.

This is the Cù Sìth — the Otherworld Hound of the Highlands, feared by Highlanders, crofters, hunters, warriors, and storytellers for centuries.
Neither demon nor animal, the Cù Sìth belongs to the realm of the Sìth, the ancient fairy host who ruled the land long before any kingdom rose or fell.

Legends say the hound appears before moments of death, transition, and crossing — not as a warning, but as a summons.
Some claimed it hunted souls.
Some claimed it escorted them.
Others said it watched the threshold, guarding the invisible boundaries between the living and the unseen world.

This documentary follows the Cù Sìth through Highland folklore, mythic cosmology, and psychological interpretation — from ancient fairy lore to modern sightings.

This is not a monster story.

It is a story about the power of place, the fear of being watched, and the deep belief that something enormous moves across the hills when the world grows quiet.

In this episode:
• Origins of the Cù Sìth in Highland fairy lore
• The hound as a threshold guardian between worlds
• Why its fur glows green — and what that colour meant in ancient Scotland
• Highland accounts of colossal hound presences
• The three-howls omen and its meaning
• Sìth cosmology and death-guidance traditions
• The psychological fear of “being followed by something you never quite see”
• How landscapes create mythic consciousness in the Highlands

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Prologue – Footsteps on The Moor
03:35 Part I. The Hound Before History
10:23 Part II. The Hound of The Highlands
18:46 Part III. The Fairy Roads and The Hollow Hills
27:56 Part IV. The Three Barks
37:25 Part V. The Mourning Hound
46:18 Part VI. The Shadow in The Mind
56:35 Part VII. The Vanishing Pawprints
1:04:22 Epilogue – The Last Bark on The Wind

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