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Aitvaras
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Region: Lithuania
Time Period: 1547 (first mention)
References in Literature: None
Sources: Ancient Deities pg 31, Giants, Monsters, and Dragons pg 10, Circle of the Dragon others

Notes:
  • Changes appearance - indoors it's a cock or a black cat, outdoors its a dragon with a fiery tail
  • Can bring both good luck and bad luck to it's masters, but will bring stolen money.
  • Can be purchased - the price is a soul.
  • The bad news - once you have one, they're near impossible to get rid of.
  • Eats omlets
  • If injured, would be healed by just touching the ground

Tale 1:

One story says that a new wife wondered by her mother-in-law's corn bin never ran out, so she took a consecrated candle and looked in the bin. There she found an Aitvaras, but the candle scared it away and it disappeared.

Tale 2:

First mentioned when a neighbor suddenly became wealthy and the others investigated

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