FLYING HEADS
Folklore of the Iroquois Native Americans
This is the name of a class of monster in the legends and folklore of the Iroquois Native American people in the northeastern United States. They were described as vast ugly heads with huge fiery eyes, rows of enormous sharply pointed fangs that closed like a prison door, straggly hair, and huge wings instead of ears. The FLYING HEADS fly through the stormy skies, sustained aloft by their hair in the tempests, while they search for unwary humans. This voracious monster preyed on villagers and their herd alike, swooping down at night and devouring whatever it landed on. Nothing could escape once the jaws had shut, that is, until an elderly woman conceived a plan to defeat it.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
She carefully built a glowing fire with wood and red-hot coal upon which to roast some chestnuts for her evening meal. As she brought them out of the fire, the shell fell off and she ate each delicious chestnut with loud approval. Soon the FLYING HEAD descended and scooped up all the chestnuts in the fire along with the red-hot stones. Like all such monsters, it was not blessed with intellect, and once it's Jaws had closed the fire stones with the chestnuts could not be released and the FLYING HEAD was burned to death from inside its own mouth.