 One modern tale relates how a fisherman's daughter outwitted the glashtyn whom she recognized by his horse's ears, resisting his temptation of a strand of pearls dangled in front of her, and holding out till the red cockerel crowed to announce (prematurely) the break of dawn ().Here it is said that the glashtyn can transform whenever upon a dunghill.Modern conceptions tend to portray the glashtin as "a handsome, dark man with curly hair and flashing eyes," capable of alluring women with his attractive appearance.