BRUCHA

These Irish monsters with iron bristles over their body and fiery eyes, like to enter orchards and vineyards, trampling down the trees and vines, then roll on the fruit so that it sticks to their bristles. These creatures only do their work against those who violate Sunday observance. Brucha appear to be related to the wingless locust that falls upon ripe harvests and also to the hedgehog or porcupine, of whom the same fruitrolling stories are told in the Physiologus.