Images of these vampire dogs already appear on the altarpiece of Santa Marina de Pratdip, from 1602.
It is believed that this legend was intended to frighten the drunkards of the village and thus prevent them from engaging in more drinking.
At the entrance to Pratdip there is a monument to this mythological being, but as it is depicted it has a very kind image.
Due to his thirst for blood, the dip served to inspire Joan Perucho who, in his novel The Natural Stories (1960), tells the story of Onofre de Dip, a vampire with the ability to transform himself into many animals.
The central part of the play takes place in Pratdip at the beginning of the nineteenth century, in the middle of the Carlist war, and the dip was actually an ambassador of King James who 700 years earlier had gone to the Carpathians on a diplomatic mission and had been attacked there by a noble vampire.