Capcaun

A căpcăun is a creature in Romania, an ogre who kidnaps children or young ladies (mostly princesses and daughters of lords). They sometimes have one too many limbs and heads. Many heroes have faced the căpcăun in an attempt to rescue a fair maiden, but most often they fail miserably to the ogre's evil tricks. This miserable creature lives all alone in a den that reeks of death and will not hesitate to attack anyone who passes by. They are wholly evil, as are their counterparts the zmeu and the balaur.

Etymology
The Romanian word appears to have meant "dog-head" (căp being a form of cap, meaning "head", and căun a derivative of câine, "dog"). The căpcăun has a dog head, sometimes with four eyes, with eyes in the nape, or with four legs, but whose main characteristic is anthropophagy. The term căpcăun is also used to mean "Tatar chieftain" or "Turk chieftain", as well "pagan". Some linguists consider căpcăun to be an echo of a title or administrative rank, such as kapkan (also kavhan, kaphan, kapgan) used by various Central Asian tribes who invaded Eastern Europe during late antiquity and the medieval era, such as the Pannonian Avars, Bulgars and Pechenegs.