Ech-Uisque
A Gaelic word meaning water-horse. The
Ech-uisque was a goblin of Highland folk-lore, understood Egbo, The: or Esik, is a secret society of Calabar, near the to be a favourite form assumed by the Kelpie, in order to lure souls to his master the Devil. In the disguise of a fine steed, beautifully accoutred, the Kelpie grazed innocently by the wayside. The weary traveller, passing by, and believing this splendid animal to have strayed from his master, was tempted to make use of him to help him on his way; and the deceitful Kelpie, remaining quiet as a lamb until the traveller was fairly mounted, would then with a fiendish yell of triumph plunge headlong into an adjacent pool. It was believed that the soul of the unfortunate man, who had had no time to prepare for death, would thus be safely secured to the Evil One; while the
Kelpie received the body in payment for his trouble. Echo D'Outre Tombe (Journal): (See France.) Eckartshausen, K. Von : Author of The Cloud on the Sanctuary (1800). Eckartshausen, by birth and education an intensely religious man, at first wrote several little books of devotion that had great vogue in France and Germany. He later turned his attention to larger works of a more profound character, such as that mentioned above. According to Eckartshausen the requisite faculty of true communion with the church is the inward conception of things spiritual and with this sense present, is possible the beginning of Regeneration understood as the process of gradually eliminating original sin. His work on the Interior Church is in two parts: first, elucidation of his doctrine; second, a series of dogmas or assertions derived therefrom.