Although the story of the demise of the kelpies is a fantasy.Lets not forget that we humans are careless in the way we use our planet ,and all it,s fruits.The picture of the cloutie does exist by the side of a country road on the black isle in Invernesshire, Chernobyl did happen in 1986 sending a radioactive cloud over the west of Scotland,which polluted the hills through infected rain, the produce of those hill farm,s affected, were not allowed to be marketed.the grass on which the stock fed was found to be contaminated by ceesium 7,it took many years for the restrictions to be lifted,but if the grass was infected what happened to the soil in which the grass grew. Maybe the kelpies didn,t become impotent as in the story, but other species of life might have, AND WE WOULD BE TO BLAME