Times are unpredictable these days. With all that has gone on the last couple years, I don’t think most people would be surprised if monsters from folklore showed their faces again. If they do, here is some advice on how to protect yourself.
Púca (Celtic Folklore)
So maybe you’re brave enough to go out to the bars and, because you are responsible, you’ll get an Uber instead of driving home. Well if your Uber ride is a horse, then you’re in trouble.
The Púca is a shapeshifting trickster that likes to take the form of a black bunny when haunting homes. While out in public, it turns into a large, black horse.
The Púca hangs around pubs in the middle of the night and offers free rides home to those who needs one. If someone climbs on the Púca’s back, they are in for the ride of their life! The Púca will gallop and buck, trying to knock its rider off at full speed, but that isn’t the creature’s end goal. It will race towards cliffs and try to throw its unfortunate passenger over the cliff’s edge. Even if it doesn’t kill the poor passenger, it will eventually buck them off and laugh as it watches them start to walk home, now twice as far away from their home as they originally were.
How to protect yourself.
1. Don’t go to the bars alone
2. Make sure you check the Púca’s reviews on Uber. If you see any one star reviews saying ‘tried to kill me would not recommend’ look for an alternative way home.
3. Tell the Púca it’s illegal to ride a horse after drinking. (Please note this is not a valid law in Montana. So as long as the Púca doesn’t study laws based on each state it, might buy your bluff.)
4. Don’t go to the bars alone! Or, if you must, prepare yourself with Charles Maclay’s short story, Beer With Friends, in the Monsters, Movies and Mayhem anthology.