This is an REI co-op production.

Listen close.

Or the snally gaster will get you.

A story to scare little children with.

The snally gaster.

An enormous vampire beast that flies by night.

Half bird, half lizard with a silver beak filled with sharp, steel teeth.

The snally gaster.

Even the name is worth a chuckle now.

See the old world needed stories like this to keep children from wandering out into a savage night filled with wild tears.

Real harm.

Real danger was everywhere.

So common that even little children who were used to it and couldn't be frightened with it.

So great and terrible creatures like the snally gaster were born.

Horrors created to save the children that they frightened.

To save them from themselves.

From their own rashness and folly.

And the only protection from the snally gaster was the symbol of the seven pointed star.

The star was a good luck charm, a powerful kind of magic to ward off evil.

Paint one on your barn.

Wear one on a necklace.

Carve one on the doorpost of your house.

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