Case file · Fairy lore
The Drac of Beaucaire
Around 1211, Gervase of Tilbury recorded that a woman of Beaucaire was dragged under the Rhône by a 'drac' to nurse its child for seven years, then returned home.
1211 CE · 43.81, 4.64 · status: legend
The account
Because she had rubbed her eye with a magic ointment, she could later see the drac in the market, until it put her eye out. The tale is in Gervase's 'Otia Imperialia', written for Emperor Otto IV.