Jubjub bird

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Jubjub Bird
Alice character
Jubjub bird (left) with the Bandersnatch (right)
First appearance	Through the Looking Glass
Created by	Lewis Carroll
In-universe information
Species	Bird

The Jubjub bird is a dangerous creature mentioned in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems "Jabberwocky" (1871) and "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876).

In "Jabberwocky," the only detail given about the bird is that the protagonist should "beware" it. In The Hunting of the Snark, however, the creature is described in much greater depth. It is found in a narrow, dark, depressing and isolated valley. Its voice when heard is described as "a scream, shrill and high" like a pencil squeaking on a slate, and significantly scares those who hear it, including the Beaver, who "turn[s] pale to the tip of its tail." Its character traits include that it is "desperate" and "lives in perpetual passion;" it "knows any friend it has met once before" and will not "look at a bribe."