Gnome. United Kingdom

In Welsh fairy tales bubach mainly manifests itself as a Slavic brownie: secretly lives in the yard or in the house among people, helping with the housework, and people in return leave him a bowl of milk or oatmeal. Interestingly, Bubach does not like people who neglect traditions, including committed teetotallers who do not even drink good Welsh beer.

Bubach, I must say, is a very old and already forgotten folklore creation. These days, even the Welsh themselves hardly remember it. But British yeti researchers, collecting eyewitness accounts, often began to encounter references to a very similar creature. So, the famous British cryptozoologist," monster hunter " Jonathan Downe says that he has many reports of meetings with small hairy men in the wooded area of Devonshire. According to him, these creatures are especially often found in the forest of Charston Woods, located near the resort town of Torbay, Devon.

The largest number of sightings occurred in the summer of 1996, when in just two weeks, 15 people reported seeing a short humanoid creature without a tail, covered with greenish hair and having a flat olive-green face. The strange creature sometimes just walked through the forest, and sometimes jumped on the branches of trees. It was assumed that it was an escaped monkey from a zoo or a private home, but there were no reports of escaped monkeys these days, and the creature was tailless and much more human-like than monkeys.