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Loch Ness is known all over the world for its legendary monster, Nessie. But it is far from the only creature said to inhabit Scotland's lochs. Could you place the locations of Lizzie or the slug pig?
Morag, a lesser-known cousin of the Loch Ness Monster, was in the spotlight last week.
Researchers had found accounts at the University of Edinburgh library of the mysterious creature from the 1900s.
The historic papers revealed local descriptions of Morag as a mermaid-like creature and a beastly death omen.
But Morag is just one of several loch monster stories hidden in the long shadow cast by Nessie.
Just south of Loch Ness is the much smaller Loch Oich, where a beast with a shaggy, dog-like head is said to have been seen.
A little further down the Great Glen from Loch Oich is long and straight Loch Lochy.
The flat area of land separating Oich and Lochy is known to historians as the site of Blar na Léine - the Battle of the Shirts.
Fought on 15 July 1544, it marked a violent escalation in a dispute over the leadership of Clanranald, one of the most powerful branches of Clan Donald.
But, for monster hunters, Loch Lochy is better known as the haunt of Lizzie. First reported as being sighted in 1929, Lizzie is said to have three humps and resemble a plesiosaur, a description sometimes used for Nessie.
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