Silly, silly man, the one who thought the beast could be killed. He was warned. He didn’t listen. I don’t pity him for he’s beyond my pity. I pity his wife, his children, for his smell, one the beast knows now, clings to them. They are marked now. Mark for a fate same as his.

Carcolh,

In French folklore the Carcolh—often referred by its name in Gascon, a French dialect, as Lou Carcolh, which translates as The Snail—is a monstrous snail-like creature that once terrorized the town of Hastingues, in the southwest of France near the border with Spain.

This creature was said to have a body like a large snake, with a gigantic shell and long tentacles that it used as whips to kill its victims, and in fact anything—human or beast—who dared approac...

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