A TANGIE is a Scottish legend of a shape shifting sea spirit often found in the form of an old man covered in seaweed; perhaps also an unclean beach dweller or dwellers seen as degraded, ethereal, spiritual or inhuman entities as in
The Doors lyrics - Maggie M’Gill:
“Miss Maggie M'Gill she lived on a hill
“Her daddy got drunk and left her the will
“So she went down, down to TANGIE Town
“People
down there
“Really like to
get it on”