Legend has it that Morbach, Rhineland-Palatinate was the last place a werewolf was killed. A single candle still burns in the village as a reminder, and a warning. One night in 1988, this candle went out and a huge wolf figure was soon spotted, standing upright at a US airbase, having scaled a three-metre high fence. He stood, staring at the soldiers then returned to the forest. The candle was re-lit, and has never gone out since.

This naughty mountain spirit has woven his way into countless tales across northern Europe, including Germany where he has been roaming mountains exercising his taste for trickery and occasionally giving out presents for hundreds of years. The sock-and-sandal clad figure is one artist’s impression, while other believers think he might be more of a spindly black dragon-man.

They are sometimes described as similar to dwarves, being the same size as children, but "grey and old-looking, hairy, and clad in moss.] Sometimes, Moss folk are also bigger.[4] In other descriptions they are said to be pretty.