Marsh-wiggle

The Marsh-wiggles were a race of humanoid creatures 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. They also had a muddy complexion and greenish skin. 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.

Their diet included eel stew, eel pie, and fricasseed frogs. They smoked a strange sort of heavy tobacco, said by some to be mixed with mud, out of pipes. The smoke from their pipe was heavy, and did not rise but floated to the ground. Marsh-wiggles did much of the work involving water in Narnia, such as docking ships at Cair Paravel, and ferrying people across rivers. Marsh-wiggles may also have helped man the Narnian navy. The Owls considered them the only people that could help Jill Pole and Eustace Scrubb reach the Ruined City of the Giants.