Ceffyl Dŵr

General about Ceffyl Dŵr
The Ceffyl Dŵr is a mythical Welsh water horse, that has the appearance of a beautiful white horse, which appears to some tired wanderers. When they then sit on its back, the Ceffyl Dŵr flies up in the sky and then throw their target of, where in the most cases the human gets hurt. Its natural habit are the lakes and the sea of Wales. They live just like Kelpies under the water.

Legends
''Should he see a horse, however quiet and staid, browsing near, let him not venture to mount it, although the beast seems to invite the weary traveler through the heather to take a seat on its back. No sooner is he in his seat than all its want of spirit is at an end. It flies away with its rider towards the lake, plunges in, and will never be seen again. It is the Ceffyl Dwr, the Water-horse, a spirit that lives in the depths, with a special taste for human flesh, which it will munch below when it has its victim at the bottom of the blue water.''

Origin of this Legend
The most sightings of water horses were made in the 18. Century. The people then didn't know much about the world and were probably scared if a fisherman didn't come home after a day. So they made up stories to cope with this stuff. Probably they saw some white horses on the beach that usually where eating somewhere else and the night after that a man went missing. Fact is that there are not many legends, stories or documents about the existing of those creatures.