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The Black Goat-Man of Wittingau (an old name for Třeboň, a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic) is a creature originally derived from the myths of Western Slavs. There is no valuable evidence that it has ever existed outside of the local rumours. The creature’s physiology is one of a misshaped goat walking on its hind legs with various other elements; however, no animal related to the goats lives in the presumed area nowadays.

Yet there are many legends and recorded observations from the Renaissance period onwards, which describe the cryptid with a surprising unity suggesting, these can be observations of a real being.

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