- "Ever Their praises, and abundance to the Black Goat of the Woods. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!"
- ―H. P. Lovecraft, "The Whisperer in Darkness"
Shub-Niggurath, also known as the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, is a cosmic entity living on the planet Yaddith, where her minions, the Dholes destroyed the civilisation of the Yaddithian. Shub-Niggurath is worshipped as fertility deity by many civilisations such as humans or Mi-Go.
Appearances[]
- "The Last Test", by H. P. Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro (1928)
- "The Dunwich Horror", by H. P. Lovecraft (1929)
- "The Whisperer in Darkness", by H. P. Lovecraft (1931)
- "The Dreams in the Witch House", by H. P. Lovecraft (1933)
- "The Thing on the Doorstep", by H. P. Lovecraft (1937)
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Call of Cthulhu RPG rulebook, fifth edition