The Beast of Craggy Island, also known simply as The Beast, is a mythical creature which many of Craggy Island's inhabitants believe is terrorising sheep, There are many conflicting rumours as to the Beast's physical form. It has been described by Hudd Hastings as being "as big as a jaguar" and it's entire face being nothing but "big, white teeth as sharp as knives" while Mrs. Doyle believes it to be a "sort of giant fox". Dougal describes the creature as being the size of four cats, having a retractable leg "so it can leap up at you better", luminus in the dark, having four ears (two of which seve as "backup ears", and some of which are actually inside the creature's head), claws the size of cups, an unexplained phobia of stamps, a magnetic tail (according to Mrs Doyle), having "four arse