Indistinct tall shape among dark mountain trees, no animal features visible

phantom of the mountains

Before the horse: the earliest dictionaries gloss the word as a phantom of the mountains, and render it with European words for satyr, gnome or goblin. This is the figure the name originally denoted.

Basis: Noceda 1754; San Buenaventura 1613 · AI-generated

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three spines in the mane →