Look, Pooh!” said Piglet suddenly. “There’s something in one of the Pine Trees.”
“So there is!” said Pooh, looking up wonderingly. “There’s an Animal.”
Piglet took Pooh’s arm, in case Pooh was frightened.
“Is it One of the Fiercer Animals?” he said, looking the other way.
Pooh nodded.
“It’s a Jagular,” he said.
“What do Jagulars do?” asked Piglet, hoping that they wouldnt.
“They hide in the branches of trees, and drop on you as you go underneath,” said Pooh.
“Christopher Robin told me.”
“Perhaps we better hadn’t go underneath, Pooh. In case he dropped and hurt himself.”
“They don’t hurt themselves,” said Pooh. “They’re such good droppers.”
Piglet still felt that to be underneath a Very Good Dropper would be a Mistake, and he was just going to hurry back for something which he had forgotten when the Jagular called out for them.
“Help! Help!, it called.
“That’s what Jagulars always do,” said Pooh, much interested. “They call ‘Help! Help!’
and then when you look up, they drop on you.
“I’m looking down,” cried Piglet loudly, so as the Jagular shouldn’t do the wrong thing by accident.

— A A Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

It may be a little-known fact that the Hundred Acre Wood from A A Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories is a real place.  Well sort of real. 

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