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In Catalan legend and popular culture, the Pesanta (Catalan pronunciation: [pəˈzantə]) is an enormous dog (or sometimes a cat) that goes into people's houses in the night and puts itself on their chests, making it difficult for them to breathe and causing them the most horrible nightmares. The Pesanta is black and hairy, with steel paws, but with holes, so it can't take anything.

See also

• Sleep paralysis
• Against a Dwarf
• Batibat
• Lietuvēns
• Mare (folklore)

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Britain	Barghest (Yorkshire) The Black Dog of Newgate (London) Black Shuck (East Anglia) Church Grim (England) Dando's dogs (Cornwall) Freybug (Norfolk) Gytrash (Northern England) Gwyllgi (Wales) Moddey Dhoo (Mauthe Doog) (Manx) Shug Monkey (Cambridgeshire)
Spain	Dip (Southern Catalonia) Pesanta (Catalonia)
China	Huodou (Southern China) Tiangou (China)
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