Moonface

In the north they are called lupï-aŋmatï, "devourer of bones", in the east mienha, "moonface". Though the creatures themselves are rarely seen, the aftermath they leave behind may be strongly felt. In certain stories, they are also responsible for the phases of the moon.

They come down during the night, flying from the moon on swift wings. You can hear them, if you listen, for the flapping of their wings and that little clicking sound they do, though the sounds are easily lost among seas of earthly insects.

They cannot be seen, unless it is under direct moonlight, when all blissful lies and illusions fade and reveal the rotten truth. Even then, even beneath pale moonlight, they remain transluscent and difficult to follow. Unless it is your house they have chosen for a victim.

They creep inside through open windows and cracks between the door and its frame. They're small, only as large as the common house cat, and require even less space to enter your home.

It is there they can be witnessed, as moonlight pierces their thin, skeletal forms like glass. Their bodies mock the human figure, with an eyeless head of a worm and long, clawed legs of a beast. Their arms are long and clawed, and wings grew out from the ends of their palms to their elbows. With them, the creatures could take flight, though the movements could look cumbersome and difficult especially after feeding.

They feed on the young and the old and the weak, leaving them with softened bodies and crumbling bones. Children born after such an attack were often weak from birth, and rarely survived into adulthood. The more extreme, and surely false myths, claim a child who died in such a fashion turned into the thing which killed it.