fatal-or-maddening-gaze

Uktena · salience 0.95

“Its gaze or breath is said to be capable of killing or overwhelming a person outright”

Ninki Nanka · salience 0.9

“A central and consistently attested belief is that merely seeing the Ninki Nanka is dangerous: in many tellings, those who glimpse it are said to fall ill, go mad, or die soon afterward, and the creature is sometimes invoked by elders as a warning to children to stay away from certain waterways.”