hitchhikingfrog

Howdy, the first half-dozen or so of my posts act as mirrors for Reddit posts and adhere largely to that style, just modifying the contents of these posts slightly, I will eventually come back and amend these when I decide on a cohesive format for my posting. Recently, an acquaintance of mine took the time to scan, compile, and upload their copy of an incredibly significant, what may in fact be the most significant, cryptozoological book ever published - Michel Meurger and Claude Gagnon’s “Lake Monster Traditions - A Cross-Cultural Analysis”, first published in English in 1988. The 1982 French version has been available on the Internet Archive for some time , but now the English version is accessible for all. I cannot emphasize how necessary it is to read this book if you have any genuine interest in cryptozoology, this is the book that pushed cryptozoology forward into modern cultural anthropology. I’ve collected a section of relevant notes below for th...

Howdy, the first half-dozen or so of my posts act as mirrors for Reddit posts and adhere largely to that style, just modifying the contents of these posts slightly, I will eventually come back and amend these when I decide on a cohesive format for my posting. This post is a brief introduction into what has become one of my personal favorite areas of cryptozoology - the wildman cultural archetype. It’s a bit informally written, apologies if the run-on sentences are a little much. It’d be best to start by defining “wildman cultural archetype”. Wildmen are hirsute human-like figures which are reclusive and culturally inept (either lacking culture or having very little culture), separated from humans proper in local cosmologies. Oftentimes wildmen possess uncanny strength, exaggerated genitals, and backwards feet. You’re all familiar with wildmen - Sasquatch, Orang Pendek, Almasti, Wodewose; wildmen are universal and constant. A cultural archetyp...