It was believed that the Danube harbored 100 spirits of whom the 100th was the chief, who was equipped with a drum and a whip. The latter was used to mete out punishments.
These spirits looked like dwarfs. They wore the conical red hat seen in so many pictures of dwarfs. They had long beards, caprine legs and ears and a single horn. They were hostile to humans, whom they pulled into the river and strangled.
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