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The Púca
The púca, anglicised pooka, is Ireland's shapeshifting night-spirit: a trickster of November and Samhain that appears as a dark horse with fiery eyes, a goat, an eagle or a bull, speaks with a human voice, and carries unwary travellers on terrifying wild rides.