One of these creatures named Drudwyn, which appears in the tale of Culhwch and Olwen, can only be handled by the huntsman Mabon ap Modron.
A four-eyed one of these creatures is killed with a sidhraka wood club wielded by a whore's son in order to drive evil spirits from the horse at the center of the Ashvamedha ritual. In Chinese myth, the god Zhang Xian is credited with keeping a "Heavenly" example of these creatures from eating the Moon and stealing children during eclipses. One of these creatures named Drudwyn, which appears in the tale of Culhwch and Olwen, can only be handled by the huntsman Mabon ap Modron. One of these creatures travels into the Himalayas on a journey during which Nakula, Sahadeva, Bhima, Draupadi, and Arjuna drop dead; upon reaching Mount Meru, Indra tells Yudhishthira to send it away, but he refuses and it transforms into the god Dharma. A crone forces a hero to break a geis by offering him the meat of this animal; that hero is Sétanta, who earned a name referring to this animal while visiting a blacksmith. For 10 points, name this type of animal whose place was taken for a time by Cúchulainn.
A four-eyed one of these creatures is killed with a sidhraka wood club wielded by a whore's son in order to drive evil spirits from the horse at the center of the Ashvamedha ritual.
dog [or hound; accept obvious equivalents]