BURATSCHE-AH-ILGS

This shapeless Swiss monster was a mass of unformed tissue, described as being very like a stomach in shape. Around its body were set leering eyes from which flames darted. Buratsche-ah-Ilgs lived in the lake of Luschersee, renowned as being one of the gateways to hell, from which the monster most certainly must have escaped. Fishermen avoided the lake’s waters and shepherds were careful not to graze flocks around it for fear of filling this walking stomach.