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== Kunal trows ==

A Kunal-Trow (or King-Trow) is a type of trow in the lore of Unst, Shetland. The Kunal-Trow is alleged to be a race without females, and said to wander after dark and sometimes found weeping due to the lack of companionship. But they do take human wife, once in their lives, and she invariably dies after giving birth to a son. The Kunal-Trow would subsequently require the service of a human wet-nurse, and may abduct a midwife for this purpose.<ref name="saxby-kunal">{{harvp|Saxby|1932|p=128}}, quoted by {{harvp|Briggs|1977|p=413}}.</ref><ref>{{harvp|Marwick, E.|2000}} <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[#CITEREFMarwick, E.1975|1975]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>, "Ch. 2: Folk of Hill and Mound", {{URL|1=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZwSAQAAIAAJ&q=kunal |2=pp. 34–35}}</ref>

They are said to consume earth formed into shapes of fish and fowl, even babies, which taste and smell like the real thing.<ref name="saxby-kunal"/>

One (a King-Trow) famously haunted a [[broch]] ruin. Another married a witch who extracted all the trow's secrets, and gave birth to Ganfer ([[astral body]]) and Finis (an apparition who appears in the guise of someone whose death is imminent), yet she has cheated death with her arts.<ref name="saxby-kunal"/>