The flying carpet is actually a mimic that a wizard enchanted as a joke.

Oh, God, the idea of mimic socks is horrifyingly scary!

I have to say the outhouse might be the smartest trick, the scent of an outhouse probably masks/smells a lot like a mimics mouth. 🤔 Or so I would assume, it would have to smell like a bears breath.

OP, it’s pretty scummy to remove an artist’s watermark from their image to repost it, but it’s just extra lazy to not re-centre the image afterwards, so you have a big white space where the watermark used to be.

It wasn’t even in the way

I ran into a thread where the wizard died to a mimic that was in a library, disguised as a book, entitled “101 ways to spot a Mimic”