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Sasnalkáhi
Variations: Cac na’alka hi, Bear that Pursues, Tracking Bear The fearsome Sasnalkáhi, the Bear that Pursues, was a monstrous bear that terrorized the Navajo people. As one of the Anaye, Sasnalkáhi was...
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Hujiao
Variations: Tiger-dragon, Crocodile-tiger, Cuo-fish, Tiger-cuo The Yin River and the Yangtze are home to large numbers of Hujiao, or tiger-dragons. A hujiao has the body of a fish with the tail of a...
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Lusca
Variations: Giant Scuttle, Him of the Hands Off the shores of Andros Island in the Bahamas are the blue holes. These are deep submarine caves that appear as dark “holes” in the sea. Local lore claims...
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Bès Bulan
Variations: Hantu Bulan (Malay), Moon Spirit Bès Bulan, the Moon Spirit, lives with the moon; during the fruit season, it also lives on top of a small hill. When it calls – oi… oi… – it is trying to...
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Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl, the “Feathered Serpent” or “Plumed Serpent” is one of the most iconic deities of the Mesoamerican pantheon. Sahagun also records a far more mundane creature by the same name. The...
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Garkain
Garkain is a spirit found living alone in the tropical forests of Arnhem Land near the Liverpool River’s mouth. Human in appearance, he possesses great flaps of skin on his arms and legs, like wings...
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Funkwe
The Funkwe is a colossal snake from the folklore of the Lambas of Zambia. It is approximately eighty miles in length and has a tail like that of a fish. These serpents live at the sources of the...
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Bès Pa’
Variations: Hantu Kotak (Malay), Pa’, Spirit Pa’ Bès Pa’, the Spirit Pa’, is a river jellyfish spirit that can expand to any size it wishes. It is usually found living in deep mud. Anyone who steps on...
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Rhox
Variations: Rhax, Rhagion, Rhogalida (“grape-spider”) The name Rhox indicates similarity to a grape. It may be the same as the spider known as rhogalida or “grape-spider” on Crete, although nobody is...
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You know what? It’s true. I was blinded to the fact earlier but I have seen the light. There’s only one person I would reliably consider for taking over ABC… Me
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As I prepare to once again move ABC into a new “season” (so to speak), I once again leave this space open for suggestions. What would you like to see sooner rather than later? What creatures are you...
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Rest assured that I have seen every single one of your comments and I have plenty to keep me busy. Even if I didn’t respond to it I have a word document with all the suggestions to refer to. Also rest...
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Well, things haven’t gotten any better. And they are getting unquestionably worse. But I think I’m starting to get my numbed brain into some kind of routine that should keep me going, somehow. So...
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Uiluruyak
Variations: Wi’-lû-ghó-yûk, Sea Shrew-mouse, Sea Shrew Uiluruyak is the Yupik word for the meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius). Hunters say it may be encountered on the sea-ice of Alaska. Nelson...
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Tsé’nagahi
Variations: Tse’naga’hai,Rolling Rock, Traveling Rock, Traveling Stone, The-one-having-no-speed; Tieholtsodi, Water Monster Tsé’nagahi, the “Traveling Stone”, was one of the many Anaye or Alien Gods....
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Ugjuknarpak
Variations: Giant Mouse The giant mouse Ugjuknarpak once lived on an island in the middle of a long, narrow lake near the source of the Colville River in Alaska. It was like a field mouse in...
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Lomie
Variations: Lomi, Lossie, Los, Moose, Elk The Lomie is a beast found within the forests of Bohemia. It has a sac-like bladder under its neck. If pursued by hunters, it pauses at a nearby body of water...
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Dajna
Variations: Thunder Camel In Maltese, dajna refers to a fallow deer or an unkempt woman. It is also the name of a titanic primordial camel that lived on Malta before the Deluge. A dajna or thunder...
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