Divnogorie

Not so long ago, dense forests were noisy under Divnogorie. They stretched all over the White Mountains, covered both high slopes and deep ravines. People have often seen how sometimes someone unknown will come out on the slope - a huge, overgrown with fur, neither a bear nor a man. He gets up, bent over, freezes and stares intently at the rare lights of the village that has fallen silent by night. Such a forest man, and according to the modern "snow", has long been called a local Garkun. For not speaking, but barking. So much so that all living things in the forest froze and hid.

Women who were picking mushrooms and berries in the forest fainted when they heard the forest man's barking. Such forest people wandered through the Don thickets, Divnogorsk caves. And then they went out to people, they got close to human housing – they were looking for grooms and brides from people. They dragged those who took a fancy to themselves into the forest thicket, to which there is evidence throughout the Scum.

Some people said that they had seen a Harpoon more than once in the Divnogorsky environs and in our days. He went out at night to the campfires of speleologists (he did not come close, loomed in the distance like a shadow, and barked).