Psoglav

Sources describe Psoglav as a mythic or demonic creature within Balkan popular belief rather than providing a cosmogonic origin. The surviving descriptions place it at the margins of the human world—subterranean caves or a 'dark land' without sun—associating it with death, burial transgression, and the unseen rather than with any specific creation narrative.

Described in available sources as having a human body, horse legs, a dog's head with iron teeth, and a single eye located on the forehead (a cyclopean feature). Regional name-variants (Croatian psoglavac, Slovene psoglavec) reflect the same dog-headed motif. Sources do not provide consistent details on coloration, size, clothing, or additional ornamentation.

Attested behaviors and capacities include anthropophagy (eating people) and exhumation/grave-robbing (digging out corpses from graves to eat them). Psoglavs are reported to inhabit caves or a sunless 'dark land' that contains gemstones. The supplied sources do not attest other supernatural powers (for example, shapeshifting, flight, or speech) beyond these corpse-eating and subterranean associations.