I50B. Many-legged beast (predator). .36.39.40.

A hoofed animal with six or more legs is described or depicted.

Ilimpi Evenki, Chukchi, Inupiat of northern Alaska, West Greenland.

Eastern Siberia. Ilimpiysky Evenks [harmful spirits and werewolves are found in the form of striped and even eight-legged bears]: Rychkov 1922: 90.

NE Asia. Chukchi [Kocatko – a giant white man-eating bear with a body made of hard bone, sometimes depicted as eight-legged; on bad weather nights it lures passers-by with a crying voice, imitating a traveler who has lost his way]: Bogoraz 1939: 37.

Arctic. Inupiat of northern Alaska (Point Barrow): Burkher 1989 [Kigak is lazy, his wife threatens to kill him if he does not go hunting; a ten-legged polar bear emerges from a hole in the ice instead of a seal; K escapes through a crack in the ice hummocks; the bear follows his tracks, gets stuck in the crack, K kills it; becomes a good hunter]: 3-7; Hall 1975, #PM102 (Noatak) [people disappear, are killed by a six-legged polar bear; Siitakuyuk flees from it between two icebergs, the bear gets stuck, S kills it with a spear]: 325; Jenness 1954 [stories of a ten-legged polar bear are common from Wales to Point Barrow; he is so big that he can break through ice as thick as a man]: 9; Smelcer 1992 [as in Spencer, the hunter's name is not given; Smelcer knows of no other versions of the motif]: 61-62; Spencer 1959, no. 171 [ Kutsirak encounters a huge ten-legged polar bear; gouges out both its eyes with a spear, escapes through a narrow defile in the rocks, where the monster gets stuck; K. kills it; now he and his wife have plenty of meat]: 425-426 (reprinted in Norman 1990: 239-240); West Greenland [in the inland areas near the glacier live the kiliffat - 6- or 8-legged terrible beasts; If the hero manages to kill such a beast, the meat eaten grows three times on the bones]: Grønnow 2009: 197.