Please, can someone identify this "beast"?

It's the pupae of a moth. I'm not sure what kind yet, but I used to see these things too (when I was a kid), just can't remember where I saw them.

A honey locust moth chrysalis.

The hairy rings are typical of the species.

Where did you find it (geographically)? In the US? Europe? Australia?

Thanks for the answers! Most likely it is going to be a pupae of some moth.
I'm from Europe, Latvia.

It's a pupae of a Latvian moth.





Moth Expert, me.

It's definitely a Moth Pupae, I just don't know what species it is. Timur may be correct, but I'm not familiar with moths endemic to the Latvian area, so I can't say for sure.

I grew up on the east coast of the US and we had pupae very similar to this. The swirling tail motion is also common among them. I think it's a function of how they break free from the casing and it's probably also a response to threats (to scare predators) because ours used to always do that when we picked them up.