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Cryptids of Latvia
What cryptids are in Latvia? The best-known is Aitvaras.
Latvian folklore’s best-known household spirit is the pūķis, a fire-tailed dragon that brings its keeper grain, milk and money, usually stolen from neighbours. Keepers fed it the first morsel of each dish; if slighted, it could burn the house down. The same creature is the Lithuanian aitvaras.
- 1 cryptid
Cryptids reported in Latvia
The legends of Latvia
Early modern sources note that alleged dealings with such household dragons led to witch trials, and observers have long linked the flying fire to meteors.
Hotspots
- Latvian farmsteads
Rural farms where household-spirit customs survived into the 20th century.