Hello,
There's a mythological being in my area of NW Spain that hunters use for playing pranks on newbees.
It consists in convinsing the victim about the existence of certain very shy nocturnal critters known as biosbardos (cocerellos or gamusinos in other areas) and having him wait them out all night, usually in some inhospitable place up in the mountain, while performing pointless tasks like beating the ground with a stick to get the unsuspecting "biosbardo" to go running into a bag, drowning in a river, etc.
I read that there is a similar myth on the Isle of Man known as the phymodee or some other variant but I haven't found anything online.
Anyone know about it? (or any other similar pranks).
Bellow is the only existing photograph of a biosbardo:
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