Cutty Dyer, the Ogre of the Yeo

Beneath the ancient eaves of Ashburton, where the River Yeo carves its quiet path through Devon’s heart, a sinister legend clings to the water’s edge—Cutty Dyer, the ogre of the Yeo, a red-skinned terror with saucer-wide eyes that gleam like death’s own lanterns in the moonlight. Born from a medieval water-sprite’s malice and twisted by the loss of a sacred statue cast into the river’s depths during the Reformation, Cutty Dyer hunts the reckless and the drunken, dragging them beneath the current to sate his endless hunger. Once held at bay by St. Christopher’s stone gaze, he now roams unchecked, his name a whispered warning to children and a shiver down the spine of those who stray too near the Yeo’s dark embrace on moonless nights.