4 Most Terrifying Turkish Urban Legends.

If you think Japanese Urban Legends Are Scary, Then Check Out These 4 Turkish Urban Legends.

Hırtık

Hırtık’s upper part is human, the bottom part is animal-shaped, covered with body hair, . It is considered to have lived in Akarsular (a place in Elazığ region, especially in Euphrates River). These regions are also called tea grit. The Hırtlık and goes to a human form. This creature chooses to attack a group, like a family. He kidnaps the youngest member with a sack and takes them to the forests . Then he drowns the youngest member, then eats the drowned body.

Kamos

There are 2 versions of this creature . The first one looks looks like a giant . The other version of this myth, it says it is as short as a dwarf.

•In the first version , Kamos appears in shadows and chokes the victim with his thumb finger.

• In the second version , Kamos is rather small and it is believed that he chokes people by sitting on their neck.

Karakura

At first you might think that this creature is a goat because of his horns . However he doesn’t eats grass like rest of the goats . In the legend it says that they” jump on their owner, chew their skin and than eat their lungs.”

Gulyabani

They are the beasts that stop by travelers and passengers and ruin them. It was conceived of as a huge, long bearded and giant , which has been commemorated in the Anatolian culture. These creatures has weird feet, their body is covered with fur and they smell really bad. Their body is covered with the color yellow-red . How they kill? They approaches the human and speaks to them like a human. He asks for something and then wrestles them. If the human wins, the “Goblin” walks away quietly. But if Gulyabani wins, the human will be sick for a long time, they will start coughing blood and their own organs.