The Fearsome Critters of American Mythology



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27 thoughts on “The Fearsome Critters of American Mythology”

  1. i was also the victim of a snipe hunt as a kid😔i was at a yearly camp out, the older girls told us we had to put toothpaste on our face and catch them in a pillowcase. they lead us out into the woods where other girls were hiding and popped out to scare us. my cousin actually told me it wasn’t real beforehand because she had been so traumatized a few years prior😭

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  2. As an avid birder I can tell you that Snipes are indeed real. They look like timberdoodles and they hang near water, so if someone sends you on a snipe hunt, know where to look for them on the banks of rivers and lakes where shorebirds tend to congregate.

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  3. As a very you kid I'd dreamt up a creature that I'd often terify my friends with whenever we'd go camping or go near a forested area (this is South Africa so we're more familiar with open planes).

    The creature was called a Conator Lepperd. It stood at about at about a meter and a half tall with much the same stance as a hyena, however the two forward, longer legs ended in 4 claws with two facing forward and two to the rear, which allowed it to grip and climb trees with great skill. It had no hair and had a thick leathery dull green or brown skin with stripes falling from its raised vertebra to its sides that helped hide it in the undergrowth. It had no tail between its hind legs, which themselves had webbed feet. This connected to the fact that it was amphibious, thus the reason why they were rarely seen in the rest of Africa, save the humid mountain forests or sometimes near overgrown rivers. The most striking feature, was that females had the head of a salamander and the males a mane like that of an axolotl. The males were excellent hunters as the mane was used to pick up scent particles from the air. This was necessary due to their relatively poor eyesight. Finally it's teeth, not large by African standards for predatory animals, but were shaped remarkably similar to Bowie knives, with the cutting edge facing forward and the spine to the rear. It's main diet consisting of baboons, but would eat pretty much anything it could ambush from the water's edge, pounce on from above, or run down through game trails

    I had an extremely overactive imagination as a kid and had watched animal planet religiously. This had given me just enough tools to think up, what was in my mind, the most terrifying apex predator that lived in an environment that neither I nor my friends were familiar with, yet carefully curious about

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  4. These magic spoon sponsorships are getting out of hand. I get the feeling he wasn’t even sponsored, his love just runs that deep. Magic spoon can’t even stop him. Last time they did they were attacked by a cereal cryptid

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  5. Wendigoon you should check out a book by Carol C Mack and Dinah Mack called "A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels, and Other Subversive Spirits". It's all about folklore/cryptids from around the world and their habit and ways to protect yourself from them. It's so cool and interesting.

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