Dahu
The Dahu is a legendary creature that can only walk in one direction on a mountainside. The female Dahu have legs shorter on the left side, the males shorter on the right side, thus walk in opposite directions around the mountain.

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Dahu
The Dahu is a legendary creature that can only walk in one direction on a mountainside. The female Dahu have legs shorter on the left side, the males shorter on the right side, thus walk in opposite directions around the mountain.
Started a habit of doing warmups by putting Jia Yongtao in various styles of historical fashion and then got carried away and now they're all going to be fully lined and colored ig¯\_(ツ)_/¯ First set is Ming yuanlingpao and a daopao+dahu combination (any inaccuracies are this humble artist's fault🙇)
Cryptid of the Day: Dahu
Description: The Dahu is a mountain goat-like animal of French and Swiss folklore. Its defining feature is that one pair of legs is smaller than the other, differing based on the description. It’s used as the subject of snipe hunts throughout France, Switzerland, and Italy.
Dahu (part 2)
I’ll probably color it, one day...
Tu-tu-tuuuuum (dramatic music)
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Day 22 : " Misshapen"
Dahu-style !
As said by my sister "it looks like a chicken that fell into nuclear acid" but it technically still fits the dragon criterion
For information, a dahu is a creature from french folklore, it's basically a mountain goat that can go only one way around the mountain due to its legs being shorter on one side.
Image above not by me !
Creatuanary 2025 Day 25: Dahu
Wendigo, bigfoot, Nessie, Mothman, capybara, swamp monsters and other sea serpents... so many badass cryptids around the world!
Meanwhile, our French cryptids...
It have legs shorter on one side to fit the montains... but that also mean it can always go the same way, never turn around or it just fall.
Two of Earth. Art by Eléa Berdat, from the Of Folk & Fable Tarot.
I choose to make my favorite cryptid from my country: the Dahu who will illustrate the two of earth/pentacles