The pwca is the black-furred Welsh version of the pooka - a forest goblin trickster. Sometimes the pwca uses a magic candle to lead travelers off the path, and other times the pwca turns into a black animal, such a horse, and entices travelers to try to catch it.
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The pwca is the black-furred Welsh version of the pooka - a forest goblin trickster. Sometimes the pwca uses a magic candle to lead travelers off the path, and other times the pwca turns into a black animal, such a horse, and entices travelers to try to catch it.
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One of the most iconic werecreatures of modern fantasy is the sewer-dwelling wererat: the apex predator of the city like the werewolf is of the forest. Wererats were inspired by the ratfolk of Lankhmar in Fritz Leiber's "Fafhrd and Gray Mouser" stories.
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