...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.
[[Category: American folklore]]
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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
[[Category:American folklore]]
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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
[[Category:American folklore]]
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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.
[[Category: South American mythology]]
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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
[[Category:Latin American folklore]]
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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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