The Diabomble is at home in Turkey. When the great trading between ships began to expand from Britain and northern Europe to the mediterrainian, this little mean fellow hid on the ships that left the port of Istanbul to sail to Greece, Italy, Spain, even boarded some ships that sailed around Gibraltar to port in Portugal, France, norther Germany and finally even Britain.

Distinguishin features:

Diabomble’s look like a 1 foot sized little devil with red-golden glowing skin. 2 black horns are growing on his forehead, his tail is thin and long. Diabombles are hermaphrodites, which means, they are both male and female and therefore one Diabomble alone can reproduce itself. But reproduction is only possible once a year. This birth or recreation of itself takes about one whole month for which it hides in a deep dark cave in the mountains. This reproductive phase is usually in September. It has been know that one or two Diabomble reproduced in November, but the young never survived the cold of winter.  A Diabomble usually hibernates from December – February. Which means, there are 4 months in the year, where you can be sure to be save of this pest.

Nature:

A Diabomble isn’t really all that vicious, but much more mean and very irksome, irritable, mischievous and utterly annoying.  You should be glad if you only find one of them in your home, if more, your doomed, cause the house will be a wrack within a few days should you not catch them.  Normally though, they live by themselves and keep to their territories.  Their mischief containts things like bad pranks of adolescents, they cause much havock through accidents, they prepare by setting up small traps or stumbling items.  Very rare cases are reported of the death of a wizard by the paws of such a Diabomble, but one wizard once stumbled over a magic set of rolling marbles, falling down the stairs and breaking his neck. Usually though, wizards and witches get away with bruises or small broken limps that can more or less be fixed easily. The most awful part is the constant hassle they cause.  They usually make a deep, hollow, echoing growling and grunting sound to frighten wizards.

 A Diabomble sadly is most difficult to catch. They are incredibly fast and wriggle out of your grip like a slippery fish. It difficult to get a firm hold on them. At least 3 students would be needed if not more to hold on to a Diabomble.  Or two adults.  If you were so lucky as to catch one make sure you have a save container to instantly lock it up, because they bite awfully much, tread you with their feet, struggle, pinch, jerk about if held. 

Possible mischief created by diabombles are:

-  opening gates of stables to herds of domestic creatures, like f.e. the Entelodont scaring the and thus causing a wild stampede of said animals, that overrun children and destroy gardens and vegetable pads.

-   Building small obstruction to cause wizards to fall in very awkward or dangerous places (stairs, top of a high building,  at the trap-door to the cellar,  a pit..etc)

-   Poking and pinching wizards in the night while they try to sleep, so they wake up tired and exhausted, covered in bruises the next morning

-   Untidies rooms with such speed, that the child of a wizard-family is most definitely to be blamed.

-  Throws sharp items and breaks things (vases, mirrors..etc) 

In general Diabomble have nothing else to do but cause bodily harm and environmental distruction (mainly within buildings)

Food:

Diabomble like to nibble on flames and ashes and therefore can be actually seen when hanging around fire-places. They are said to have been seen to nibbled on leather shoes as well with delight.

Special Magical features:

When they scurry around at night at the great speed they normally move, the reddish-golden glow of their skin makes lovely patterns in the dark, according to their movement, which looks rather pretty, not unlike a lovely flickering flame. 

Use:  Unfortunately there’s no special use for any part of the Diabomble’s body.  Great Merlin must have created it just to punish us.