Cath Palug

Cath Palug, also Cath Paluc, Cath Balug, Cath Balwg, Chapalu, Capalu, or Capalus, literally "Palug's cat", or maybe from the Welsh 'palug,' meaning 'clawing,' was a monstrous cat in French and Welsh legend. It was said to haunt the Isle of Anglesey, and to have killed and eaten nine score warriors.

The French versions relate a battle between King Arthur himself and the Chapalu. Sometimes the beast wins, sometimes King Arthur wins.

The fight between King Arthur and Cath Palug is figurated on a moisaic in the Cathedral of Otranto

The French tradition associates it with the Mont du Chat in the Savoie region of France, near Lake Geneva, where Arthur was defeated by the Cat in a battle fought in a swamp (pallu) near that mountain.

The Welsh tradition gives as localisation the Isle of Anglesey but born at Llanveir.

The Cath Palug is always localised nearby water ; lake of Bourget and Lake of Geneva in France, the sea in Wales.

In the Pendragon (role-playing game) module "Savage mountains" (1991) there is an adventure called "The Adventure of the Paulag Cat".

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