Teurst
Also called Teus, Teursapouliet, Bugelnoz.
The feared black beast of Morlaix, and — under a related name near Vannes — a white spirit who covers the damned with his cloak against the Devil.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Breton folklore
- Region
- Brittany (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Kindly Watchers
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Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Defensive powers
- Guardian intervention
why
His cloak goes over them and nothing reaches them under it.
Utility powers
- Shapeshifting
why
They appear in the likeness of some domestic animal, and the descriptions settle consistently on a large black version of an otherwise ordinary beast — the same device as the Black Dog of England, and Keightley makes the connection explicit by comparing them directly to the Yorkshire Barguest.
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.
- Shadow carries
2 citations
- Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, s.v. "Teurst."
- Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, p. 437.