The mythical white stag of the Scottish Higlands appeared this morning in an undisclosed location in Scotland

Local villagers are thrilled.

The Stag, a celtic symbol of magic and the otherworld, originates in mythology from the pre-Indo European coutries of Britain. It is also most notably portrayed as the Celtic god Cernunnos, depicted as being a man with the antlers of a deer.

The animal is said to glow, and appear ghostly in front of other similar sized goats that graze the moors of this area. This glowing is caused by a gene mutation that causes the condition leucism. Unlike albinos, this condition, however, limits the normal amount of brown colouring in the hair and the skin, without rendering the eyes red.

In story, the presence of the White Stag is held to thin the veil between the worlds and in tales of Camelot and King Arthurs court the sight of a Stag would send the Kings men into the woods prepared to fight all manner of Faerie Folk.

In C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, the entire tale begins and ends with the presence of a White Stag that leads the children into an alternate world of fantasy creatures.

In modern times, the Scottish see sightings of the Stag as times of luck and optimism.

The current location of this sighting remains hidden from the public to keep excited onlookers, and hunters alike, from harming the animals.

The last official report of a White Stag in Britain, was early October when the body of one was found decapitated on the Moors outside Cornwall.