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Celestial Stag
Variations: Celestial Roe Celestial Stags or Celestial Roes are neither roe stags nor are they celestial. They are Chinese spirits that haunt deep areas, corpse-demons native to the ore mines of Yunnan...
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Variations: Hantu (Malay) The Bès are the evil spirits of the Jah Hut, an Orang Asli people from peninsular Malaysia. They are true spirits, existing independently and not emerging from humans alive or...
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Come-at-a-body
Variations: Quadrupes improvisus (Tryon) Bravado and surprise are the weapons of the terrifying Come-at-a-body, a native of New Hampshire’s White Mountains. According to a Mr. B. B. Bickford of Gorham,...
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Famocantratra
Variations: Famocantraton (Dapper) The Famocantratra (as Flacourt describes it) or Famocantraton (in Dapper and subsequent works) is a small lizardlike animal found in Madagascar. Its name means...
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Cathach
Variations: Cáthach Ireland’s three dragon sisters Dabran, Farbagh, and Cathach were the offspring of the gatekeeper of Hell and the all-devouring sow; they were nursed by the red demon of West...
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Arassas
The Arassas hails from the folklore of Lagrand in the Hautes-Alpes region of France. It is a greyish-colored animal with the head of a cat and the body of a lizard. It lives in ruined houses and old...
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Dard
The Dard is peculiar to the department of Vienne in France, but its physiognomy recalls that of the alpine dragons – and, like them, it probably evolved from mustelid accounts. It is a serpent with...
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Cuero
Variations: Hide, Skin; Manta; Huecú, Chueiquehuecu, Chueiquehuecuvu, Trelque, Trelquehuecufe, Trelquehuecuvu, Trilkehuecufe; Ghyryvilu (erroneously?); El Cuero (erroneously) The tale of the living...
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Origorúso
Variations: Oriogorúho, Orio-goruhu; Suguma; Poópoó The Origorúso (Kiwai) or Oriogorúho (Mawata) is a man-beast, an ogre from the folklore of the Kiwai islanders of Papua New Guinea. Its name is...
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Would you be okay with no more images? What about no more posts? Because I don’t think I’m contributing much anymore.
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I need to take a break and process my many shortcomings. Hopefully will get this site running again sometime this December. Just not right now.
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Just because ABC is on hiatus doesn’t mean it has to be on hiatus! Feel free to pester me with requests for future entries on this site or elsewhere.
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What if I continued ABC but without illustrations? I just don’t feel confident in my “art” anymore.
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How are there still people finding this blog whatthehell I thought everyone who’d care found it years ago
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I want to thank you all for your kind, wonderful words. Yes. I’ve read every single one even if I haven’t the heart to respond. I’m not having the best few months (and the existence of a certain virus...
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Still easing into this. Somehow. Today’s entry is actually a completely overhauled older entry, the ahuna (the fish formerly known as swamfisk). Go over and take a look!
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Depictions of the ahuna
Thomas de Cantimpré. Beaky and birdy. Ortus Sanitatis. Ditto, but in French. Olaus Magnus (top right corner, curled up).
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Muscaliet
Variations: Muscardin; Dormouse; Musquelibet, Musquelibus, Musquilibet (possibly) Nobody is quite sure what a Muscaliet is. Our only source for this unusual rodent is found in the bestiary of Pierre de...
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Tompondrano
Variations: Tòmpondràno, Tompon-drano, Tompoudrano Tompondrano, “lord of the water” or “master of the water”, applies to multiple concepts within the folklore of Madagascar. For our purposes, it refers...
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Teakettler
This small Northwoods denizen makes a sound like the whistle of a boiling teakettle. It walks backwards by choice, and clouds of steam come out of its nostrils. Nothing else is known of its appearance...
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