Fachen is both a Scotish and Irish dreadful monster...
Fachin can look as a bird-like creature with an appearance so frightening that it reportedly induced heart attacks in anyone who saw it....
Descriptions of the beast tend to vary and include such physical features as a single eye, a rooster like crest, a mane of black feathers tufted at the top and a very wide mouth....
The Fachen also was reported to have a single foot and in some cases is said to have only half a body...
The fachan was not just ugly, but vicious. It chased travelers in lonely places, jumped on them from behind and killed them...
The Fachen description is close to an ancient, terrestrial, predatory bird, which may have, at one time, inhabited the Emerald Isle.
Other speculate that it might be a Moa which has traveled from New Zealand to the British isles....
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fachen
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