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'''Toller'''

Origin: [[Manly Wade Wellman]]'s "[[The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)]]"

==Description==


In American folklore, the snallygaster is a dragon-like beast described by hill communities of German immigrants in the forests of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, who knew it as a monster called a ''Schnelle Geist'', meaning "quick ghost" in German. The Snallygaster was described as one-eyed, reptilian, ghoul-like creature, with leathery bat-like wings, a metallic beak lined with razor-sharp teeth, and octopus-like tentacles. It swoops silently from the sky to pick up and carry off its victims. The earliest stories claim that this monster sucked the blood of its victims. Seven-pointed stars, which reputedly kept the snallygaster at bay, can still be seen painted on local barns.

==Keeper Notes==


* Alternative_theory. ([[source]])

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* setting: [[Folk Mythos]]
* story: [[Manly Wade Wellman]]'s "[[The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)]]"

==References==
* Fiction: [[Manly Wade Wellman]]'s "[[The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)]]"

[[Category:Races]]
[[Category:FolkMythos]]

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		+	* similar creatures:
		+	** [[Hunting Horror]] of Leng
		+	** [[Shantak]]
		+	** [[Byakhee]]

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 [[File:Snallygaster.png|200px|thumb|right|Snallygaster, as portrayed in an early 20th century Maryland Newspaper]]
-'''Snallygaster'''
+'''Snallygaster''', AKA '''Snoligoster''', '''Schneller Geister''', '''Scnelle Geist''', etc.
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-In American folklore, the snallygaster is a dragon-like beast described by hill communities of German immigrants in the forests of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, who knew it as a monster called a ''Schnelle Geist'', meaning "quick ghost" in German. The Snallygaster would be described in an infamous newspaper campaign spanning the first half of the 20th century as one-eyed, reptilian, ghoul-like creature, with leathery bat-like wings, a metallic beak lined with razor-sharp teeth, and octopus-like tentacles. It swoops silently from the sky to pick up and carry off its victims, from whom the Snallygaster would then suck the blood, discarding their corpses on the lonely cliffs of the Maryland hills. [[Elder Sign (symbol)|Star-shaped "hex signs"]], which reputedly kept the snallygaster at bay, can still be seen painted on local Maryland barns.
+In American folklore, the Snallygaster is a dragon-like beast described by hill communities of German immigrants in the forests of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, who knew it since the 1700s as a monster called a ''Schnelle Geist'', meaning "quick ghost" in German. The Snallygaster has been described as as one-eyed, serpentine creature, with slug-like skin, leathery bat-like wings, and octopus-like tentacles. It swoops silently from the sky to pick up and carry off its victims into the distant and lonely cliffs of the Maryland hills.  There, the Snallygaster will suck the blood from its victim through its tentacles, draining its victim dry and then digging a shallow burrow to toss the corpse into to decay, and after a few days the Snallygaster returns and grinds the last of its rotting victim into a pulp which the Snallygaster then slurps up like a soup. To this day, [[Elder Sign (symbol)|Star-shaped "hex signs"]], which reputedly kept the snallygaster at bay, can still be seen painted on local Maryland barns.

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−	In American folklore, the snallygaster is a dragon-like beast described by hill communities of German immigrants in the forests of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, who knew it as a monster called a ''Schnelle Geist'', meaning "quick ghost" in German. The Snallygaster would be described in an infamous newspaper campaign spanning the first half of the 20th century as one-eyed, reptilian, ghoul-like creature, with leathery bat-like wings, a metallic beak lined with razor-sharp teeth, and octopus-like tentacles. It swoops silently from the sky to pick up and carry off its victims, from whom the Snallygaster would then suck the blood, discarding their corpses on the lonely cliffs of the Maryland hills. [[Elder Sign\|Star-shaped "hex signs"]], which reputedly kept the snallygaster at bay, can still be seen painted on local Maryland barns.	+	In American folklore, the snallygaster is a dragon-like beast described by hill communities of German immigrants in the forests of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, who knew it as a monster called a ''Schnelle Geist'', meaning "quick ghost" in German. The Snallygaster would be described in an infamous newspaper campaign spanning the first half of the 20th century as one-eyed, reptilian, ghoul-like creature, with leathery bat-like wings, a metallic beak lined with razor-sharp teeth, and octopus-like tentacles. It swoops silently from the sky to pick up and carry off its victims, from whom the Snallygaster would then suck the blood, discarding their corpses on the lonely cliffs of the Maryland hills. [[Elder Sign (symbol)\|Star-shaped "hex signs"]], which reputedly kept the snallygaster at bay, can still be seen painted on local Maryland barns.

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−	In American folklore, the snallygaster is a dragon-like beast described by hill communities of German immigrants in the forests of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, who knew it as a monster called a ''Schnelle Geist'', meaning "quick ghost" in German. The Snallygaster would be described in an infamous newspaper campaign spanning the first half of the 20th century as one-eyed, reptilian, ghoul-like creature, with leathery bat-like wings, a metallic beak lined with razor-sharp teeth, and octopus-like tentacles. It swoops silently from the sky to pick up and carry off its victims, from whom the Snallygaster would then suck the blood, discarding their corpses on the lonely cliffs of the Maryland hills. [[Elder Sign\|Star-shaped ~~symbols~~]], which reputedly kept the snallygaster at bay, can still be seen painted on local Maryland barns.	+	In American folklore, the snallygaster is a dragon-like beast described by hill communities of German immigrants in the forests of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, who knew it as a monster called a ''Schnelle Geist'', meaning "quick ghost" in German. The Snallygaster would be described in an infamous newspaper campaign spanning the first half of the 20th century as one-eyed, reptilian, ghoul-like creature, with leathery bat-like wings, a metallic beak lined with razor-sharp teeth, and octopus-like tentacles. It swoops silently from the sky to pick up and carry off its victims, from whom the Snallygaster would then suck the blood, discarding their corpses on the lonely cliffs of the Maryland hills. [[Elder Sign\|Star-shaped "hex signs"]], which reputedly kept the snallygaster at bay, can still be seen painted on local Maryland barns.

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 ==References==
-* Fiction: [[Manly Wade Wellman]]'s "[[The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)]]"
 [[Category:Races]]
 [[Category:FolkMythos]]

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-* Alternative_theory.  ([[source]])
+* The sinister, hybrid, winged Snallygaster (and the similar [[Jersey Devil]]) might be thought of as regional variations on the [[Byakhee]].  (fan theory)

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-'''Toller'''
+'''Snallygaster'''
-Origin:  [[Manly Wade Wellman]]'s "[[The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)]]"
+Origin:  American Folklore
 ==Description==
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 ==Associated Mythos Elements==
 * setting:  [[Folk Mythos]]