Zoogs

[HPL Kadath (online text)]: A race of beings in the world of dream. They are furtive and secretive beings who dwell in burrows or tree-trunks. They are small and curious, and usually unseen. One sees their weird eyes long before one can discern their slippery brown outlines. The zoogs' speech consists of fluttering sounds .

Although they eat mostly fungi, they are not above occasionally eating animals or visiting dreamers. The zoogs make a wine from the fermented sap of a moon-tree (a tree grown from a seed dropt down by someone on the moon).

The zoogs dwell in the enchanted wood, just past the Gate of Deeper Slumber in the world of dream. They cannot travel far outside the world of dream, but range freely over the nearer parts of dreamland. One of their villages is near an old circle of mossy stone, where elder beings danced and sacrificed. The zoogs fear and shun a stone slab with a hug iron ring, while leads down to the realm where the Gugs were banished.

The zoog Council of Sages recognized Randolph Carter as an old ally. Some zoogs who followed Carter to Ulthar were slain by the local cats, after at least one of the zoogs tried to eat a kitten. Later Carter overheard the zoogs planning a war of revenge against the cats. After Carter warned the cats, they launched a preemptive strike and secured the surrender of the zoogs, along with tribute and hostages. Thereafter the cats provided Carter an escort to protect him from the resentful zoogs.

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