The Black Hen of Braewood

The Black Hen of Braewood, also known as the 'Ol' Skelpit' or 'The Velvet Lady o' Hell' is a creature of folklore and supposed manifestation of Endric which appeared in the woods outside the village of Carnbrae on the morning of Childenstide in the year of 2nd Wind's Rising (444 BGE). The creature is said to have taken the form of an enormous black hen whose left burning scratch marks in the dirt. 
According to legend, it is said that the colossal black chicken was first sighted by a woodsman, who heard its screeching in a nearby copse...
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The Hen was finally defeated when it was forced inside a barrel of ale by the woodsman and the local innkeeper, who lidded and sealed it inside in the hopes that it might drown. Yet the bird kept screeching within the barrel like a thing which cannot die, and the villagers took the barrel in fear and buried it deep in the ground, far from the village near the old King's Toll Road.
The Hen is said to have signified the death of Queen Margaret a day later, and the end of the Bruth dynasty; however modern historians have noted that in actuality, the queen actually died six months after the reported encounter with the Hen..
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