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Tammatuyuq
- #3170
Inuit (culture)
Humanoid (attribute)
Domestic (attribute)
Cave Dweller (attribute)
Deadly (behaviour)
This was a cannibal monster believed to live and terrify the Inuit people of the Hudson Bay in Canada. This creature of human form would gain trust in mother of a small child. When left alone with the child he would steal it and take it to its lair. At its lair it would suck the life out of a child by piercing its head with a needle or straw.
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