I sometimes get asked if Scandinavian countries have cryptids like Big Foot and Mothman, and not just old folklore creatures like elves and trolls, and though I’m sure there are some they must to be very local because I haven’t heard about any.
I think Americans have to understand that your Frogmen, Nightcrawlers and Jersey Devils are your folklore creatures. You’re in the process of making your own folklore and I think that’s beautiful. Now you just have to get creative with it and imagine what type of culture those creatures have, the same way Scandinavians imagined trolls and gnomes to be enemies because gnomes protects houses and churches, or how the long-breasted troll/elf women Slattenpatte were hunted by the dark hunting party of the night, and of course the elf king sometimes had parties where he invited all the other creatures.
You need to imagine Big Foot and Mothman having tea parties where the nightcrawlers aren’t invited because they only drink soda or something.
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Cryptid of the Day: Domenech’s Goat
Description: In the 1850s, abbot Emanuel Domenech claimed that people had witnessed a cat-sized goat with claws, in Fredericksburg, Texas. The “goat” had rose-colored horns and white, silk fur. The goat was owned by a Comanche woman, who found it in a woods where the animal was abundant
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✶ New to my Ko-fi Shop! MOTHMA'AM ✶
I've never offered these prints outside of in person at cons! I'm going through organising my con stuff for next month and I found a handful left neatly packaged in a box of con merch. ♡
Snag the set of 3 for $10 USD (or add a sticker for $13!)
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Never be alone in a dark place.
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Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real
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Little doodle of the PRINCE of the cryptids, MOTHMAN!
Couldnt take out my paints today but pretty happy I was still able to doodle!!:D
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I love butterfly rays because half of the images of them online come in two varieties and it’s
a) a baybey!
b) I know what you are.
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d̶͖͛̓͢͝â̷̗͇̕̚͜t̸̢̥͌́̋͞e̴̱҇͆͜?̶̶̶̶̱̱̱̱͌͌͌͌͢͢͢͢͝͝͝͝🖤
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Time to share this freak here.
Yup, this guy's made the rounds a few times on other sites, now he lives here.
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Lookin for a midnight treat
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I think I'm a lifelong cryptid enthusiast because I'm nearsighted. Like what do you mean the Patterson-Gimlin film isn't crystal clear. That's how bigfoot would look to me anyway.
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Cryptid of the Day: Trieste Fish
Description: During the first manned expedition of Challenger Deep, Jacques Piccard, aboard the Trieste, saw a 1ft long flatfish, at around 35k-36k ft deep. If true, this would be the deepest anyone has found fish, though many believe Piccard misidentified sediment stirred up by the vessel
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Mothman cometh...
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