The Losgadh : (the burnt man) / Rex Faucett.

''The Losgadh is a recorded mythical creature in Scottish lists without any detail and this tale redresses that. In the first days of Scotland being visited by Christian missionaries, some missionaries resorted to brutal tactics to persuade peaceful farmers and artisans to convert to Christianity. Uffa Atticus, the village blacksmith, led his villagers in acts of resistance. The missionaries used as, mercenaries, former Roman soldiers who settled and married locally to burn Uffa on a bed of straw and pitch. Uffa cursed the missionaries as he was dying but after being saved from death by a magical local spring he undertakes a campaign to kill Christians and burn their churches. Uffa is a dark, burned-black monster with control over all forms of fire but also with the power to control minds when it suits him to do so, making him a formidable entity. Ultimately, Losgadh leaves Scotland and heads to London with the intention of killing the Archbishop of Canterbury and burning Westminster Abbey to the ground.''--Publisher's description.

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