Wamp
Wamp, Web-footed Wamp
Origin: American Folklore; H.P. Lovecraft's "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)" (where it is barely described)
Description
...Ghouls of the waking world do no business in the graveyards of upper dreamland (leaving that to the web-footed wamps that are spawned in dead cities)....
— H.P. Lovecraft's "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)"
A strange, sack-like, web-footed, carrion-eating creature that digs up shallow graves for its food, and leaves a trail of salt behind it as its spoor. If especially hungry and there are no corpses around to eat, wamps have been known to attack and eat living people. Bodies partly-eaten by a wamp might transform into a wamp themselves, so to prevent this from happening, you should bury the bodies deep, or leave a measure of salt in the body's mouth as wamp-repellent, as the wamp, though it leaves a trail of salt behind it, attracting deer that follow the wamp for the salt it trails behind it, the wamp is itself disgusted by salt.
Keeper Notes
Associated Mythos Elements
- setting: Folk Mythos, Dreamlands
- story: H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)
