Tilbury

In Icelandic folklore, a creature created by a witch to steal milk. Only women can create it and own it. The creature is known only in Eastern Iceland and has two names: tilbury in the north and snakkur in the south and west. There are no written references to Tilbury before the 17th century, although one of the authors mentions a witch who was punished for owning it in 1500.

To create a tilbury, a woman early in the morning in Trinity Day steals a rib of a freshly washed corpse, wraps it in gray wool, which should also be stolen for this purpose (sometimes it is specified that the wool should be torn from the place between the shoulder blades of a sheep belonging to a widow, shortly after shearing), and stores it between her breasts. The next three Sundays at communion, she spits consecrated wine on the bundle, which becomes more alive each time. Then she lets him suck on the inner surface of her thigh, which causes a characteristic wart in the shape of a nipple to grow on it, on which tilbury hangs. After that, the woman can send him to suck milk from other people's cows and sheep.

To suck milk from the udder of an animal, he jumps on his back and lengthens to reach the bottom (in some versions it is said that he is able to descend from two sides to process two teats at the same time). Sometimes tilbury also steals wool laid out to dry after shearing and washing; he turns around with it and becomes like a huge moving ball. He's very fast.

The traditional way to get rid of tilbury is to send him to the mountains to a common pasture with an order to collect the excrement of all the lambs (either on three pastures, or put them in three heaps) and the creature will either work to death or die from the fact that as a malicious creature it does not tolerate the number three, but on only a human bone will remain in the pasture.