Fern Flower
Published on October 14, 2019

Kapkeun

  • Capcuen

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Romania

Description

A man with a dog's head, a half-man, half-dog in Romanian mythology. He has two heads or two muzzles (mouths) and a dog, which is on the back of the head. According to some reports, they have four eyes on the back of their heads.

These are cannibals, swallowing whole children or large pieces of human meat with bones and everything else in one of their mouths, and spitting out inedible waste from the other.

It was said that they caught boys and fattened them for slaughter. Probably, the belief about these creatures probably comes from the Greek novel "Alexandria", which was translated into Romanian in 1620, which tells how Alexander the Great reached a country where there lived "people who had a human face in front and spoke like a human, and a dog's muzzle that barked like a dog behind." 

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