Kelpie

ZOMG I started this AGES ago...aaaannnnd never finished it....I will one day, eventually, I like him a lot the way he is though...maybe I won't finishe him...I mean I was even willing to cut off some of my own hair for a tail

um...this is my interpretation of a Kelpie...which according to the Wikipedia is....

The kelpie is a supernatural shape-shifting water horse from Gaelic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland. In Orkney a similar creature was called the Nuggle, and in Shetland a similar creature was called the Shoopiltee. It also appears in Scandinavian folklore where it is known by the name Bäckahästen, the brook horse.
In Scandinavia, the brook horse was a transformation of the Nix, a water spirit in the shape of a man. It was often described as a majestic white horse that would appear near rivers, particularly during foggy weather. Anyone who climbed onto its back would not be able to get off again. The horse would then jump into the river, drowning the rider. The brook horse could also be harnessed and made to plough, either because it was trying to trick a person or because the person had tricked the horse into it.


The Nix as a brook horse by Theodor Kittelsen, another depiction of the nix as a white kelpie
The kelpie sometimes appeared as a rough hairy man who would grip and crush travellers, but it most commonly took the form of a beautiful tame horse standing by a stream or river. If anyone mounted it, it would charge into the deepest part of the water, submerging and taking the rider with it.
They would sometimes interbreed with humans' horses, and the foals were said to be fine fleetfooted horses.