Psoglav

Psoglav (Serbian Cyrillic: Псоглав, literally "doghead") is a demonic mythical creature in Balkan mythology; belief about it existed in parts of Bosnia and Montenegro.^[1] Psoglav was described as having a human body with horse legs, a dog's head with iron teeth, and a single eye on the forehead.^[1]

Psoglavs were described to live in caves or in a dark land which has plenty of gemstones, but no sun.^[1] They practice anthropophagy, by eating people, or even digging out corpses from graves to eat them.^[1] In Croatian the term is psoglavac, and in Slovene it is psoglavec. There are numerous legends about them, particularly on the Istrian peninsula in Croatia.^{[citation needed]}

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The Dark Land

• Cynocephaly
• Ghoul

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