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The Dobhar-Chú, Father of Otters, King of Lakes, and the Master Otter of Northwestern Ireland. A Monsterous and Mythological beast that roams Lough Glenade with a white pelt and murderous rage!
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I want the otter on a T-shirt.
YES YES YES YESSSD EXTRA MTHOLOGLY MY DAY IS MADE
I KNEW IT! Otters are monsters. (Specifically river otters. Sea otters are cool though.) Like dolphins, cute water animals are horrible murderous psychopaths.
Plus I'm pretty sure I remember a documentary about beavers where an otter was trying to kill beaver babies.
Honestly, for the whole second half of the tale I was "Why are you running? You killed the first otter in one shote with your gun. Reload your gun and kill the second one".
If the master otter had rised from the dead or there were dozens of them, I could understand, but it's just the same one as before. Who was no threat for him the first time. Because it's just a dog-sized otter, people have killed far more dangerous things with rifles XD
What is the name of the intro song you use?
Dobhar-Chu, Dobhar-Chu, naal ok zin los vahriin! Just saying, imagine Skyrim with giant otters instead of dragons.
At some point someone should have said "this is way too many otters"
Historically death at water was a relatively common thing. Just like smoke damaged lungs from cooking over fires. Fetching water, washing and such that we dont need to do in the modern age kept people on the edge of waters. If you slipped in you got soaked. Now most of those times you might get out but always. Stunned by pain, water soaked clothes or other weirdness might be that 1 in 100 time you don't get out of the water. Myths like this do warn about the dangers what might be in the water so stay on the shore or in the shallows not deeper.
I live laugh love extra mythology, doom otter made my day
YOOOOOO! I live like 10 min from Glenade and work even closer to it! BTW its pronounced like glen-aid.
If I had know y'all were working on an episode about it i would have contacted the local lore experts and historians to send some reading material and info/pamphlets your way!
Crazy seeing a place i drive by every couple of days represented on this channel considering its such a niche little folk tale.
I don't remember Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas having so much murder in it, but then again it is 70's Jim Henson.
pronounced dowar hyu btw
As a lifelong lover of otters(Thanks Redwall!) I choose to believe this is otterly true. And amazing.
DOBHAR, I CHÚ YOU!
I half expected this to be about Ottar, the legendary figure of Norse myth.
Reminds me of the Beast of Gevaudan. Something rooted in the 'modern' world that is a fantastical explanation for a potentially mundane event.
Yeah, IRL Pokemon just got that much scarier… 😅
I don’t know why, but the animation for Ter’s horse’s “Wtf” eyes animation before bolting made me let out the ugliest laugh 😂
I thought otters were cute😢🥺
Yay! Extra Mythology! Oh how I’ve missed thee!
So, like, Ter killed his wife… right?
It's impressive how the art for this series only gets worse.
I am floating in deep water
Like the unfamiliar otter
In love with someone's daughter
I'm going to lose float
In his book "In the Wake of Sea Serpents" cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans had several categories of sea monster sightings. One classification was the "super otter" which might give some credence to this story. I think he considered the creature extinct or possibly extinct, but I could be wrong.
"It was then he realized he really shouldn't otter have done that."
1:50 why does the donkey turn into a penis before vanishing off screen???
This channel spoils tf outta me, bringing back extra mythology is amazing
"This was no ordinary otter… this was the Dobhar-Chú!"
…I don't speak Irish very well but doesn't that mean "water-dog", aka, the Irish word for otter?
How otterly ridiculous!!
Can you do Napoleon history please
We also have a headless horseman who hates gold, uses a human spine as a whip and if he calls your name and you don't have gold nearby. You drop dead, instantly.
So cool!
I'm an otter With a dark side
An otter with a dark side :3
Nice 😎😎😎😎😎
Ter killed his wife. Giant otter was his excuse…
0:02 Ah c'mon lads, can't believe I have to say this
Leitrim isn't a real place
"Cute little teddy bear nose."
Lol.
So it's an otter with a dark side?
nice touch, not to repeat the opening theme and printing it on the background. i love you
OK, I know it's pedantic, but Ter probably didn't use a gun. This story comes from 1722, but from 1695 on, a series of laws, known as the Penal laws, made it illegal for any Catholic Irish to bare arms (amongst plenty of other things). One version of the tale has Ter taking on the dobhar-cu with a dagger, not a gun. Honestly, a knife fight against an "Otter King" is not only more believable but more epic too.
Been waiting for some extra mythology
The eyes in the background to the right of the campfire scene is the otter…
Can you do an episode on finnish mythology? Great video by the way.
Master Otter sounds like someone who should be the protagonist's sensei in an action anime.
You guys ever going to stop advertising a racial political movement with your "Because Learning Matters" (BLM) protest logo, on your channel page? It's been years and you're still advertising where you stand on a criminal movement unrelated to the topic of your site.
My guess at your opinion, based on being told this by others who've gone to even more ludicrous mind-eaten-by-the-Fair-Folk extremes, is "this is so incredibly important, our loyalty to the Cause has become our identity and you're evil for questioning it".
An otter as big as a dog is just an otter, that is how big they are. When you say its a monstruous otter I was expecting something bigger than just a normal otter.
Thank you for the video.
The King Otter asked for it.
If those thing existed humans would have fun finding out if there are more otters than bullets
Finally I found an otter… with a dark side.