The Pooka

A shape-shifting spirit, found in folklore across Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Wales. Most often it appears as a black horse with luminous yellow eyes that snatches up travellers and runs them across the country until dawn. Sometimes a hare, sometimes a goat, sometimes an eagle, sometimes a man with the head of an animal. The Pooka is hostile to drunks and lazy farmers but generous to those who leave it a share of the harvest. It is most active around Samhain. After 1st November, you do not pick blackberries. The Pooka has been at them.