Cagrino

The Cagrino is from Roma mythology. They are demonic yellow hedgehogs that are one and a half feet in length and width. They ride horses to exhaustion causing them sickness and tangled hair. They can be kept from horses by tying them to stakes covered in garlic juice and making a cross from red thread and laying it on the ground. They can also be repelled by making bread from the horse’s hair along with salt, meal, and bat blood, rubbing the bread on the horse’s hooves, then hiding the mixing bowl used to make this bread and saying “Tarry, pipkin, in this tree, till such time as full ye be.”

Citations:

Bane, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore. United States, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2016.