Tajar

Tajar is the camp's resident large furry possibly-magical creature, and he looks something like a tiger, something like a badger and just a little bit like a jaguar. He has tucks in his front legs to keep him from dancing, and a tear in his tail from doing Death-Defying Life Leaps through the trees by the Dining Hall. If you see him once, you'll forget what he looks like. If you see him twice, you'll forget to forget what he looks like. If you see him three times, you'll surely become a great friend of his.

Tajar is friends with Madam Witch, who lives out in a tree in the forest, and the Range Ranger, who ranges the ranges in that region.

Tajar has a mailbox, where campers and counselors can write to him. Sometime's he'll write back. Tajar's Mailbox is at the OCR end of Tajar Trail.

There are numerous Tajar Tales. The earliest ones date from the 1920's and were written by Jane Shaw Ward. There is no official spelling of the name Tajar- one could spell it Tadger, Tadjar, Tager, Tajer, or any other of a multiplicity of ways and it would still be correct- because in the original Tales to see the Tajar twice could be quite fatal, and "if the namer were written twice alike, both author and readers might forget what he's spelled like which would be quite fatal."