Demiguise



The Demiguise is a peaceful, herbivorous creature that can make itself invisible and tell the future which makes it very hard to catch. It is found in the Far East, but only wizards and witches trained in their capture can even see them. It resembles an ape with large, black eyes and long, silky hair. Demiguise pelts are highly sought after as the hair can be woven into Invisibility cloaks. Cloaks made from their hair eventually turn opaque, losing their invisibility effects as time passes.

Demiguises have precognitive sight so that the only way to catch them is to do something completely unpredictable.

The Demiguise's ability to make itself invisible is used to symbolise the number zero, in the runic alphabet.

History
IAt some point before 1631, Phineas Fletcher smuggled a Demugzuse to North America which escaped and bred with a Ghoul. Their offspring were the first Hidebehinds.

Magizoologist Newton Scamander owned a Demiguise called Dougal who escaped from his suitcase during his visit to New York in 1926 and caused a disturbance in the Ginzberg Delaunay department store while caring for an occamy that had also escaped. He later found them both with a help of Queenie and Tina Goldstein, as well as No-Maj Jacob Kowalski.

Behind the scenes

 * A Demiguise appears in the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, played by Edd Osmond.

Notes and references
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