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Gytrash

From English folklore, Gytrash is a spectral black dog. It can either help or harm travelers, guiding them to safety or leading them to doom.

At a glance

Tradition
English folklore
Region
England (habitat)
Kind
British black dog
Trait family
The Justice Beasts

Near this figure

and 3 more
  • Goblin Confuses travelers into losing their way · Glowing red eyes
  • Badalisc Moral perception · Glowing red eyes
  • Cerberus Moral perception · Glowing red eyes

Traits

Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.

Behaviour

Sight and sound

  • Materializes suddenly out of mist or shadow
    why

    Its appearance is often described as sudden and startling, materializing out of the mists or emerging from shadows, with eyes that glow like embers in the darkness.

  • Glowing red eyes
    why

    Its appearance is often described as sudden and startling, materializing out of the mists or emerging from shadows, with eyes that glow like embers in the darkness.

Utility powers

  • Shapeshifting
    why

    Rose's two entries on the Gytrash agree that it is a shape-shifter, able to appear in whatever form it chooses and most often as a horse, cow, mule or dog.

Curses

  • Death omen
    why

    Both also say that sighting it is read as an omen of death and disaster.

Roles

Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.