I suppose it's easy to see where some of our fairytale monsters come from.
If they were born during the middle ages they would probably had been burned at the stake as witches.
If born earlier, they would have been a bad omen for the village & drowned at birth.
If they managed to survive all of that, if at any point the crops failed or there was a drought, they would have been sacrificed.
Aren't people great?
Allan