The name comes from their habit of dyeing their hats red with the blood of their victims. Usually only one redcap inhabits a building. are also said to be the spirits of those sacrifices. The similar but less malevolent dunters Spirits also known as powries, said to haunt the peel towers and castles of the Scottish border with England. According to tradition, the foundations of such towers and castles, supposedly built by the Picts, were sprinkled with the blood of a human or animal sacrifice, and the redcaps are the spirits of those victims. Redcaps are goblin-like evil fairies said to live in the ruined peel towers and castles in the Border country between Scotland and England, particularly those associated with slaughter or other wicked deeds. Grandtully Castle in Perthshire, Scotland, reputedly home to the only benign redcap
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