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Căpcăun
A Căpcăun is a creature in Romanian folklore, depicted as an ogre who kidnaps children or young ladies (mostly princesses). It represents evil, as do its counterparts ''Zmeu'' and the ''Balaur''. The Romanian word appears to have meant "Dog-head" (''căp'' being a form of ''cap'', meaning "head", and ''căun'' a derivative of ''câine'', "dog"). According to Romanian folkloric phantasy, the ''căpcăun'' has dog head, sometimes with four eyes, with eyes in the nape, or with four legs, but whose main characteristic is anthropophagy. The term ''căpcăun'' also means "Tatar chieftain" or "Turk chieftain", as well "pagan". Some linguists consider to be the echo of Turkish term ''kapkan'' (''kaphan'', ''kapgan''), that in some Turkic peoples in the age of migrations (for example at Eurasian Avars, Proto-Bulgars - ''kavhan'' - and Pechenegs) was a high noble or administrative rank.〔(DER ) (Romanian Etymological Dictionary), definition no. 2〕 ==References==
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