...he [[fearsome critters]], a group of legendary, imaginary creatures in the folklore and traditions of lumberjacks and forest workers in the U.S. during the 19t
* Campbell, W.S. "Fearsome Critters", Journal of American Folklore, 1941.
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In Native American mythology (particularly in the Cherokee tribe) the '''Ani Hyuntikwalaski'''
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The '''Teakettler''' is a legendary creature from American folklore with origins in lumberjack culture, specifically the lumber camps of Minnes
The Teakettler belongs to a group of similar folklore creatures known collectively as Fearsome critters.
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A '''hidebehind''' is an American folkloric creature that a human may spot in the corner of their eye, but di
* Botkin, Benjamin Albert (1997). The American People: Stories, Legends, Tales, Traditions and Songs. Transaction Publishe
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A '''joint snake''' is a mythical creature of the American southern states, the myth likely having spread elsewhere.
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The '''Bonhomme sept-heures''' is a kind of bogey man in the folklore of Quebec (Canada)
...ms of bogeymen (called ''Bonhomme Basse-Heure'') with similar names in the folklore of France.
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...d as Roux-Ga-Roux, Rugaroo, or Rugaru), is a kind of werewolf in the Cajun folklore of French Louisiana.
...another creature called ''[[Rugaru]]'', reportedly associated with Native American legends, but it is not clear if it is a [[sasquatch]], a [[wendigo]] or a r
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In Mi'kmaq folklore, a '''Jenu''' is a wild and cannibalistic hairy giant.
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The '''Candileja''' is a ghost in Colombian folklore
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* Botkin, Benjamin Albert (1998). ''The American people : stories, legends, tales, traditions, and songs''. New Brunswick, N
* Rose, Carol (2000). ''Giants, monsters, and dragons : an encyclopedia of folklore, legend, and myth.'' Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 0-87436-988-6.
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...lumber camps of Minnesota and Wisconsin. It is part of a group of similar folklore creatures known collectively as [[Fearsome Critters]].
Similarly to folklore such as Paul Bunyan, the person relating the story of the axehandle hound r
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...Tunda''' (La Tunda) is a vampire-like monster woman in the folkore of afro-American community of the Colombian Pacific region.
...also shows up stories about the Deer Woman, another shape-shifter of North American natives mythology. [[Deer Woman]] is also a seducer of men, luring them to
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...torage at the National Museum of American Art (later named the Smithsonian American Art Museum) where an authorized recasting of the original Adams Memorial st
...ng Shadows: The Adams Memorial and Its Doubles". American Art (Smithsonian American Art Museum) 14 (2): 2–25.
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'''Agnes of Glasgow''' (1760-1780) is a woman of American folklore, but nonetheless was in fact a real person.
...fore she could find him. She was buried under cover of darkness by Wateree American Indian King Haigler, who had befriended her.
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...ological or otherwise supernatural creatures in South and Central American Folklore.
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In Inuit folklore, the '''Akkiyyini''' is a skeletal ghost that, during his life, enjoyed dan
*Blackman, W. Haden. ''The Field Guide to North American Monsters: Everything You Need To Know About Encountering Over 100 Terrifyin
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According to folklore the distinguishing feature of a hoop snake is that it can grasp its tail in
...tozoologists feel that is a distorted description of the sidewinder of the American southwest, or of mud snakes which will occasionally lie in a loose hoop sha
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The '''Lake Worth monster''', also known as the '''Goatman''', is a North American cryptid reported to live in Lake Worth, Texas.
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...ome critters ''' was a collective term coined in early American lumberjack folklore for a variety of strange or frightening imaginary beasts which were said to
...nglish folklore). Fearsome critter stories have been collected by history, folklore and backwoods enthusiasts.
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A '''Boo Hag''' is a mythical creature in the folklore of South Carolina's Gullah culture. It is a regionalized version of the [[H
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According to the tale, a Native American woman disguised herself in the skin of a mountain lion to spy on the men of
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...ogy)|group]]. The academic and usually [[ethnology|ethnographic]] study of folklore is known as [[folkloristics]].
...als; only in the 20th century did ethnographers begin to attempt to record folklore without overt political goals. The [[Brothers Grimm]], Wilhelm Grimm|Wilhel
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The '''Hodag''' is a fictional animal that is part of the folklore of the American state of Wisconsin. Its history and acknowledgement are mainly focused arou
* The creature is mentioned in chapter 10 of the novel ''American Gods'' by Neil Gaiman.
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...r '''crone''') is a kind of malevolent, wizened old woman often found in [[folklore]] and children's tales such as '''Hansel and Gretel'''.
..." was a [[nightmare]] spirit in British and also Anglophone North American folklore which is essentially identical to the Anglo-Saxon ''mæra'' - a being with
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In Hispanic folklore of the American Southwest, Duendes are known as evil, green-skinned, red-eyed little monste
In folklore of the Central American country of Belize, particularly amongst the country's African/Carib-descend
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...''' is one of the fearsome critters, a group of legendary creatures in the folklore and traditions of lumberjacks during the 19th and early 20th centuries in N
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In the folklore of Venezuela, '''la Sayona''' is the spirit of a woman that shows up only t
*Domínguez, Luis Arturo. 1990. Encuentro con el folklore en Venezuela. Editorial Kapelusz Venezolana. Caracas.
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Large wars have long been said to create many ghosts, and the American Civil War was no exception.
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The '''Colo Colo''' or '''Colocolo''', is a malevolent creature from mapuche folklore.
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'''Tailypo''' is a creature of North American folklore, particularly in Appalachia.
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According to folklore from the island of Seram in Indonesia, weird human/bat creatures are often
...mble winged monkeys, the Ropen, the Kongomato, and possibly even the North American Batsquatch.
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...dragon is another representation of this scary being and is present in the folklore of Portugal and Galicia. The name of the "coconut" derived from "coco" and
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...Bell family of Adams, Tennessee. The story is the basis of the films ''An American Haunting'' (2006) and ''The Bell Witch Haunting'' (2004), and may have infl
...rrative presented by author Brent Monahan in his novel, The Bell Witch: An American Haunting. This movie's explanation of the phenomena, derived from the novel
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*[[Asmodai|Asmodeus]] ([[Persian mythology]], [[Jewish folklore]] and [[Christian demonology]])
*[[Chupacabra]] (Latin American mythology)
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...'', sometimes also known as Deer Lady, is a shape-shifting woman in Native American mythology
The Deer Woman is similar in nature to several other female figures of folklore from other regions such as [[La Llorona]] from Mexico and the Southwestern
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The '''Shunka Warakin''' (also shunka warak'in) is an American beast from cryptozoology and mythology that is said to resemble a wolf, a h
In the language of the American Indian Ioway people, as discovered and collected by Loren Coleman, shunka w
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...ton who published a treatise called "Nagualism: A Study in Native-American Folklore and History" which chronicled historical interpretations of the word and th
...55, "El espiritu del mal en Guatemala" in Nativism and Syncretism , Middle American Research Institute Publications 19:37-104, Tulane University.
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...d a case against the existence of several Crybaby Bridges as being genuine folklore; instead contending that they were fakelore that was knowingly being propag
...s which they described could not be affirmed by him as fact or preexisting folklore through either local oral history or the media.
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...kind of [[fairy]] having the appearance of such a woman, often found in [[folklore]] and children's tales such as Hansel and Gretel. The term appears in Midd
...tition, and closely related to the Scandinavian ''[[mara]]''. According to folklore, the Old Hag sat on a sleeper's chest and sent [[nightmare]]s to him or her
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...affliction in the Ainu language is meko pagoat, "cat punishment." In Ainu folklore there is also "dog punishment", "bear punishment", and so on for every anim
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The Barmanu appears in the folklore of the Northern Regions of Pakistan and depending on where the stories come
...sters.com/monsters/hairy/index.php?detail=article&idarticle=244 Barmanu at American Monsters]
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The '''Nimerigar''' are legendary race of little people found in the folklore of the Shoshone people of North America’s Rocky Mountains.
...e lived in the Wind River and Pedro ranges of Wyoming. Nearly every Native American culture tells of a race of little people. Comanche referred to Nunnupis, Ch
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...t]] of North America. He’s also often linked to the [[Gray King]] of Welsh folklore as both inhabit the mountains, are known as sinister and able to manipulate
Similar responses have been reported in many North American Sasquatch encounters, and explanations involving infrasound or pheromones h
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The '''cucuy''' or '''el cucuy''' is the boogeyman of Latin American cultures.
...as spread to countries such as Mexico, Argentina and Chile. In the Mexican-American community the creature is known as ''El cucuy''. Other names include '''coc
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...''' (IPA pronunication /ka.ðe.xo/) is a monstrous dog from Central America folklore.
...rrible for several days, and then its body will disappear. Some Guatemalan folklore also tells of a cadejo that guards drunks against anyone who tries to rob o
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...ions", "spirits", or "demons") are a class of obake, creatures in Japanese folklore ranging from the evil oni to the mischievous kitsune or snow woman Yuki-onn
...folklore to the point that some mistakenly believe it originates from said folklore).
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...rmont is known as the Wampahoofus. Similar animals are part of Appalachian folklore, sometimes in the form of a breed of cow with mismatched legs.
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* Blackman W Haden (1998), “The Field Guide to North American Monsters: Everything You Need to Know About Encountering Over 100 Terrifyin
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According to folklore, the pishtaco is an evil vampire-like man, often a stranger and often a whi
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...rough the UK and North America, and the stories maintain popularity in the American south.
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In Jamaican folklore, '''duppies''' are restless spirits of the dead that are believed to haunt
...is word of West African (Bantu language) meaning ghost or spirit. Jamaican folklore contains a significant amount of duppy stories in various forms. Jamaican s
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The Omaha, a tribe of American Indians, slit the soles of the feet of those killed by lightning; the Basut
* Leach, Maria (editor). ''The Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend''. Harper San Francisco, 1984. ISBN 0-06-250511-4
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...y a story created by John Russell, with no actual basis in Native American folklore. The bird imagery is not reported in Father Marquette's original descriptio
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The '''Plat-eye''' is a malicious, ghostly [[Black Dog]] from the folklore of the West Indies, Georgia and South Carolina.
..., Carol [November 2001]. Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth (in English). W. W. Norton & Company, 217, 289. ISBN 0-39
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...urban setting. The name is designed to differentiate them from traditional folklore created in preindustrial times.
...ds to make two points: first, that [[legend]]s, [[Mythology|myth]]s, and [[folklore]] do not belong solely to so-called primitive or traditional societies; and
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...at the asylum never existed; however, the story has been part of the local folklore for several decades. Laketown Township Manager Al Meshkin told the Holland
[[Category:American folklore]]
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...rphose; take the form of" (see the Huashu) – are a common theme in Chinese folklore, particularly for dragons like the shen. The "dragon's transformations are
...Guoyu say they transform in the huai 淮 "Huai River." According to Chinese folklore (Visser 1913:69) swallows are a favorite food of both Chinese long 龍 and
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The Chinese folklore scholar Wolfram Eberhard links bashe with the legendary archer Houyi 后翌
...riant Chinese name for the South Asian ran 蚺 or mang 蟒 "python" (and South American "boa constrictor" or African "mamba"). "Mythical draconyms often derive fro
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.../ASIN/0609800175/monstrous-20 Blackman, W. Haden. he Field Guide to North American Monsters. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998. Pages 164-165]
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A '''tomte''' or '''nisse''' is a mythical creature of Scandinavian folklore, believed to take care of a farmer's home and barn and protect it from misf
...ialect in southernmost Sweden; it is a nickname for Nils, and its usage in folklore comes from expressions such as ''Nisse god dreng'' ("Nisse good lad," ''cf'
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...on [[Africa]]n beliefs, though it draws significantly from Native American folklore, especially in its use of herbs and other botanical ingredients. Over the y
Most practitioners of hoodoo are African American, but Caucasians and Native Americans also use hoodoo, and it shares some co
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'''Chinese dragons''' are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology and folklore, with mythic counterparts among Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Turkic dra
...xample, an advertisement campaign commissioned by Nike, which featured the American basketball player LeBron James slaying a dragon (as well as beating up an o
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The Pukwudgie belongs to the folklore of the Wampanoag Nation, the dominant Native America tribe in Massachusetts
...like our modern idea of a troll. His features mirror those of the Native American in the area, but the nose, fingers and ears are enlarged and the skin is de
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In Japanese mythology and folklore, the futakuchi-onna belongs to the same class of stories as the rokurokubi,
* Featured in the episode "Imprint" in the American television series Masters of Horror
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However while tanuki are prominent in Japanese folklore and proverbs, they were not always distinguished from other animals. In loc
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'''Kobolds''' are goblin-like creatures of German folklore that can be found either in houses or in underground mines.
* Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods returns to the traditional legend, depicting Hinzelmann as an ambivale
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'''La Llorona''' is a popular ghost in Latine America folklore.
...ears superficial resemblance to the sounds made by the kikik from Filipino folklore.
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appearing in Northern European folklore and mythology
In Southern Mexican and Central American myth, the
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...ts have demonstrated that some creatures of [[mythology]], legend or local folklore were rooted in real animals or phenomena. Thus, cryptozoologists hold that
...roven tales and traditions regarding unknown undescribed animals in native folklore should not be summarily dismissed in the same way.
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...s surrounding the haunting have led to it becoming a very late instance in American legal history in which the testimony of a "ghost" was accepted at a murder
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Gog and Magog are usually considered to be giants, and are also found in the folklore of Britain.
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...different mythological character in native Australian aboriginal mythology folklore. This version of the Yowie is said to be a bizarre, hybrid beast resembling
*The North American [[Bigfoot]]
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...n her article ''The Green Man in Church Architecture'', published in ''The Folklore Journal''. The figure is also often referred to (perhaps erroneously) as "[
...s a decorative motif in and on many buildings, both religious and secular. American architects took up the motif around the same time.
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...and consider the stories of Bigfoot to be a combination of unsubstantiated folklore and hoax. This is due to current scientific knowledge plus the lack of bone
...as the product of the misidentification of common animals, mythology or [[folklore]]. For instance, northern Europe's former belief in [[troll]]s has been sug
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