In the origin of Germany, though the superstitions of early German immigrants later combined with sensationalistic newspaper reports of the monster. The Snallygaster is a chimeric monster that devours and terrorizes anyone. These snallygasters were depicted as a half-reptile, half-bird dragon-like monster and it is having a metallic beak lined with razor-sharp teeth, occasionally alongside octopus-like tentacles.
The Snallygaster was said to be half bird and half reptile, with a beak filled with fangs, a single eye, and tentacles for a tongue. It had four legs, two wings, and was serpent-like in shape, and screeched like a locomotive whistle. It liked to swoop down and steal children, livestock, pets, and even adult people up and drink their blood. The Snallygaster's most hated foe was the Dewayo, which it could often be seen or heard to fight. This Critter terrorized the northeast for some 20-odd years, when it suddenly disappeared from sightings entirely, supposedly having died from the fumes of an illegal moonshine still and falling into the vat; its carcass was said to have been destroyed by government agents confiscating/seizing the still at the time.