"[2] Usually taking a crescent form, similar to a flight of grey birds, they were said to be able to approach and pick up a person from any direction and then transport them far away through the air, from one island to another.
[1] The Scottish Gaelic name Slúagh stems from the Old Irish slúag (≈ slóg), meaning 'host, army; crowd, assembly'.
-lu 'army'), whose original meaning may have been 'those serving the chief', by comparing with Balto-Slavic words that probably emerged from early linguistic contacts with Celtic speakers in Central-Eastern Europe: e.g. Lithuanian slaugà ('service, servitude'), or Old Church Slavonic sluga ('servant').
[4][5] In the Legacy of Kain video game series, Sluagh are among the enemies that Raziel encounters in the Spectral Realm.
They are scavenging, animalistic creatures that prey on souls and usually prefer to flee from Raziel unless cornered or in a group.