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title: Monuca
description: A malevolent beast of Cantabrian mythology.
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  name: Graciela Paula Caldeiro
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The monuca is a cursed animal of Cantabrian mythology, the offspring of a wildcat and a guadaña, animals of different species that can only mate every eleven years to conceive the monster in question.

The monuca has multicolored skin: a white head, a body of red, blue, and black, and a violet-colored tail. It is born in spring, and shortly after coming into the world, while its skin has not yet developed its pigmentation, it flees the den and wanders aimlessly through the forest. When it opens its eyes and sees the light for the first time, it returns to the cave where it was born to kill its mother: it sucks her blood and tears out her eyes.