Thread:Scottish-Terror/@comment-36136988-20180807183256/@comment-25008763-20180807184221

they are fairy folk, not singular.. a great many fairies are seen as singular when they really aren't:

"Hyde suggests that both descriptions represent branches of a common Gaelic tradition, and that the word fachan may be a diminutive of the Irish fathach (giant) and related to the Scottish famhair (giant)".

that means that it is basically a word for an ogre, which fits the Fachan perfectly.. it isn't a single monster, that honor goes to guys like Iron-Jack.

http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095807512

like all folklore, depends who you ask, the time period and so on.. it may of started as a god or demon but over time became a species.