Anguila peluda

The account recorded in local tradition and antiquarian writing (notably Manuel de Ossuna y Van Den Heede, late 19th century, as summarized in modern sources) locates the creature in the Barranco de los Infiernos / Palmital ravine at Punta de Anaga. According to the tradition reported by Ossuna y Van Den Heede and summarized in later retellings, many years prior an eel of enormous size inhabited a particular pool now known as the Charco de la Anguila. Peasant residents interpreted the anomalous animal as a malign supernatural presence — in Ossuna y Van Den Heede’s phrasing, they thought it was a demon in disguise — and the community undertook an exorcism-like intervention; following that rite the creature died or disappeared. This chain of reporting (late-19th-century antiquarian account preserved in modern summaries) is the basis for the legend as recorded in the cited sources.

Sources describe the Anguila peluda as a monstrous, exceptionally large eel-like being with a head covered in hair and a gaze marked by threatening malice. These head-hair and menacing-gaze traits are the primary recorded morphological features; the cited accounts do not supply additional anatomical detail (such as exact body length, limb-like appendages, or coloration).

Contemporary and antiquarian sources report only that the creature inhabited a pool at Punta de Anaga and terrified local people; its appearance led residents to interpret it as demonic and to seek its exorcism. The available documentary record does not ascribe explicit supernatural powers (for example, shapeshifting, magical control of water, or specified harms) beyond its great size and the community’s perception of malign intent (as reported by Manuel de Ossuna y Van Den Heede and summarized in later sources).