Marsh-wiggle

The Marsh-wiggles were a race of humanoid amphibians that inhabited the marshlands near the River Shribble in the northern parts of the World of Narnia. They had green-grey straw-like hair, large ears, long legs and arms, and webbed hands and feet, similar to those of frogs. Some, such as Puddleglum, also had a muddy complexion. They generally had a pessimistic view on life. They lived in small structures called Wigwams. Marsh-wiggles liked their privacy, so their wigwams were spread far apart from each other. They ate things like eel stew, eel pie, and fricasseed frogs and they considered their food poisonous for humans, though it really was not poisonous at all. They smoked a strange sort of heavy tobacco, said by some to be mixed with mud. They smoked out of pipes. The smoke from their pipe did not rise in the air but trickled out of the bowl and downwards difting along the ground like a mist. Marsh-wiggles did much of the work involving water in Narnia, such as docking ships at Cair Paravel, and ferrying people across rivers. The Owls considered them the only people that could help Jill Pole and Eustace Scrubb reach the Ruined City of the Giants.

Notable Marsh-Wiggles

 * Puddleglum