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Fearsome Critters of American Folklore

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The Fearsome Critters are a group of mythical beings from the Tall Tales told by European colonists in North America, mainly in New England (naturally), and to a lesser degree in forested Midwest states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite that, there are stories of Fearsome Critters spread all across the country, including several notable "species" specific to the southwest. Fearsome Critters are notable for being described primarily by their behavior, not by their appearance, and for often having names that reflect that (Hide-Behind, Come-at-a-Body, et cetera), meaning that what they actually look like fluctuates wildly from tale to tale in the style of Paul Bunyan—whose loyal friend and partner, Babe the Big Blue Ox, might well be a Critter himself.
Genuine belief in the Fearsome Critters was never widespread; even in most of modern America they're relatively obscure, and almost completely unheard-of in other parts of the world. They originated, variously, as exaggerated accounts of native fauna unfamiliar to the European travelers who described them and as a humorous means of describing the strange goings-on in the woods by lumberjacks, carnies, and other outdoorsy types. Fearsome critters are not cryptids, nor are they associated with Native American faiths; the sasquatch and the wendigo are not Fearsome Critters.
For further research: Fearsome Critter Database at http://www.fearsomecritters.org, Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, by William T. Cox (1910), Fearsome Critters, by Henry H. Tryon (1939). The Pine Barrens Institute also has some great articles.
Some of the notable Critters are:
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A jackalope appears in Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders. Even Shaggy'd thought they were fake.
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Episode 5 of Made in Abyss features the Inbyos, a species of wiry-limbed ape-like creatures that live qin the Inverted Forest and throw rocks and sticks at people, highly reminiscent of the Agropelter.
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Fallout 76 has numerous mutated creatures that are based off creatures from Appalachian folklore, such as the Beast of Grafton from Grafton, West Virginia, and the Snallygaster, among half a dozen others.
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Skin Deep: A Jackalope is a resident in the Liverpool Avalon.
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Pixar Shorts: Boundin features a sheep, despondent after having been sheared of his wool, receiving comfort and wisdom from a passing "Great American Jackalope".
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TierZoo: The Jackalope is one of the "cryptid" builds discussed in the April Fools' Day episode (despite, as noted above, not being a proper cryptid). In order to unlock the jackalope, a player would need to select a rabbit build and get infected with the shope papilloma virus. While the idea of a rabbit with antlers sounds promising, in reality, these antlers are actually tumorous growths. Because the virus significantly reduces the playtime of rabbit players, the jackalope was placed at the bottom of the game's tier list.
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Bruce Coville's Book of... Magic: Byrd Song, a 1996 short story by Nancy Springer, centers around an outcast girl who meets a Squonk bird.
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Hillbilly features the Taily-Po, a sort of cat-like creature from Appalachian folklore, as a recurring villain.
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A Hodag appears as a monster of the week in Season 2 of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.
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MC Frontalot mentions the creature in "Scare Goat", with the lines "Got a Mongolian Death Worm at my house, right next to Squonk and the Aqueous Mouse..."
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No Evil: Jackalopes are the size of horses or cattle, and domesticated as beasts of burden.
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Earthworm Jim: One episode features the Giant Fur-Bearing Trout, an ancient being of sacred wisdom.
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In The Secret Saturdays, the Cactus Cat makes an appearance in the episode "Cryptid vs. Cryptid".
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Charby the Vampirate: Kavonn hates jackalopes with a passion, as his Magic Hat is infested with them and they often land on his head while he's wearing it.
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In Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, Squonk is the name of one of the B-class hunt marks in the Sea of Clouds. It doesn't look anything like its namesake, however, being merely a giant version of one of the Paissa enemies in the area.
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Magical Diary: Horse Hall: One monster that can be found in the dunegons, is a Hodag, furry, bipedal, spikes running down its back, horned, and fangish canine teeth.
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Don't Starve: The "rabbits" have antlers, implying they are really jackalopes.
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Culdcept features the Squonk as a playable creature card.
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InCryptid: Many of these have been mentioned as real creatures, plus an additional one of the author's own creation, screaming yams. Jackalopes are noted as being delicious and requiring annual hunts to trim their husks (i.e. herds) of aging males who might otherwise slow their migration. In one short story, Alice finds a baby hodag and temporarily keeps it as a pet.
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Long Gone Gulch 's long-suffering mayor, Rhubarb, is a jackalope, as were his (taxidermied) predecessors and his secretary Marigold. In the pilot he loses one antler in a Bar Brawl started by Rawhide and Snag and takes their sheriff badges as a result.
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Sam & Max Hit the Road described jackalopes as the bastard sons of Piltdown Man.
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Pinky and the Brain: In "Where the Deer and the Mousealopes Play", Brain and Pinky put on fake antlers and pretend that they are the last "mousealopes" in a scheme to take over Pittsburgh.
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Zootopia: The prehistoric rabbit mannequin at the museum has a pair of small, Jackalope-like antlers along with huge saber-tooth canines.
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Gunnerkrigg Court: A jackalope is among the residents of Gillitie Forest. Gillitie Forest is in the UK but appears to attract mythical creatures from all over the world.
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Bloom County has a basselope — a cross between a basset hound and an antelope. The original version crossbred with a rabbit to make jackabasselopes, while in the 2016 revival, his antlers are actually inflated with helium.. or something.. and allow him to fly.
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Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell: The Hodag makes an appearance as a conceptual artist living in the woods of Upstate New York. He moved there from Wisconsin to go to art school because apparently you get some crazy scholarships for being a Single Specimen Species.
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Miike Snow have the silhouette of a jackalope as their logo, which appears in each of their albums' cover arts.
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Penny Blackfeather: Antelabbits, also known as snow spirits, are basically talking jackalopes. The townsfolk think they're rats.
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Book of Imaginary Beings:
Several are described under "Fauna of the United States", including the axehandle hound, which is shaped like a hatchet and eats the handles of the same; the gillygaloo, a bird whose square eggs lumberjacks hard-boil to use as dice; the goofang, a fish that swims backwards to keep the water out of its eyes; the goofus bird, which flies backwards and makes upside-down nests; the hidebehind, which is always hiding behind something and is impossible to escape; the pinnacle grouse, whose single wing forces it to fly in circles around a single mountain peak; the flightless roperite bird, which uses its lasso-like beak to ensnare rabbits; the teakettler, a dog with feline ears that makes noises like boiling kettles, issues smoke from its mouth and walks backwards; and the winged upland trout, which nests in trees and fears water. Borges notes that, in all likelihood, nobody ever believed that these things really existed.
The squonk (Lacrimacorpus dissolvens, meaning "dissolving tear-body") is given a chapter of its own. They live only in hemlock forests in Pennsylvania, and are in a state of constant grief due to their ill-fitting, wart-covered skin. They weep wherever they go, making them easy to track, and if caught, cornered or even simply surprised they dissolve into tears.
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The Field Guide to Evil: "Beware the Melonheads" revolves around an American family that moves to a cabin in the woods, but when their son meets an 'imaginary' friend, things take a dark, creepy turn.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: In The Titan's Curse, Artemis offhandedly mentions turning a boy into a jackalope for having stumbled upon her Hunt (and considering what happened in the original myths to people that did this, that's getting off light). Given how she later says she likes making jackalopes, this was likely a repeat event.
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Red Dead Redemption will rarely have a jackalope show up in the wilderness; not capturable, no less difficult to hit than regular rabbits, but with the added bonus of skinning it for extra antlers and an achievement.
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Episode 10 of Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement has Mitsuha learning that her firearms' instructor was having a cookout, so she popped over to the other world using her Dimensional Traveler abilities to hunt some of the horned rabbits there. Naturally, the others make the comparison to Jackalopes when she brings them to the cookout.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The 2017 edition includes the Hidebehind, the Snallygaster, the Wampus Cat and the Hodag as new additions.
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Odd Squad: The mascot of the organization is a jackalope, which makes all sorts of different animal noises during transitions between scenes. According to a Facebook interview video with Oprah, the jackalope was picked as the organization's mascot because many agents stated it was their favorite animal when surveyed.
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America's Funniest People has a recurring sketch featuring a Karmic Trickster jackalope named Jack Ching Badda Bing.
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Mortasheen has the Sqwunk, based on the Squonk, a useless byproduct of monster creation. Incredibly ugly, it weeps openly if its face is seen and dissolved into tears if it sees itself in a mirror.
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Scooby-Doo:
A Hodag appears as a monster of the week in Season 2 of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.
A jackalope appears in Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders. Even Shaggy'd thought they were fake.
The DC Scooby Doo comics featured a segment, in which Velma describes several to the readers. See here.
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Magic: The Gathering features a card called "Jackalope Herd."
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Rhapsodies: During a camping weekend, Blossom tells a ghost story about the Hide Behind as the start of an elaborate hoax to troll Fran and Olive. (Apparently, there is a "real" Hide Behind. His name's Travis and he's visiting his parents in Arizona.)
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Eerie, Indiana: One episode features a jackalope, with the revelation that the ones that people are familiar with are babies, while an adult is Godzilla-sized.
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Arthur, King of Time and Space: Pellinore shoots a jackalope in the Western arc, apparently the setting's equivalent of the Questing Beast.
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Tiny Toon Adventures: One episode features a monstrous Jackalope named One-Eyed Jack.
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Shadowrun features numerous American folkloric creatures in its monster books, usually as Awakened animals — that is, normal wildlife transformed into magical creatures by the return of magic to the world.
Paranormal Animals of North America includes the agropelter (small humanoids descended from Awakened rhesus monkeys and known for making nuisances of themselves), the hoop snake and the Devil Jack Diamond fish (Awakened pike three meters long).
Parazoology includes a few additional critters in its section on mutated animals (creatures mutated from normal and Awakened animals by further magical surges and good old-fashioned mutagens). Cactus cats are mutated bobcats native to the Southwest, with green fur and thorny hides; they ambush prey by blending in with cactuses. Jackalopes are the standard antlered rabbits; there are also wolpertingers, which live in Europe and mutated from local European rabbits rather than North American jackrabbits, but the two strains are functionally the same species and produce fertile offspring.
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Jenny Nicholson made an ASMR Video about converting a plush toy of a trout into a fur-bearing trout with a little bit of needlework.
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Deadlands has Fearsome Critters among its "abominations", such as jackalopes (corpse-eaters who manipulate luck to cause fatal accidents) and catamounts (evil, supernatural versions of the mountain lion).
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Lost Girl depicts a squonk, like almost every other supernatural being, as a type of fae. Instead of a hideous creature, they look human, and are often used by a drug lords for their tears which can make one feel happy when consumed. In an allusion to the original myths, squonks can't be moved against their will or they'll literally burst into tears. This means drug Lord's have to manipulate them into captivity, and also makes rescuing them even harder for heroes like Bo.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Jackalopes often appear as background fauna. They get along well with normal rabbits — at the very least, a jackalope and a rabbit in Fluttershy's menagerie seem to share a den.
In Friendship Games, a jackalope is the first creature to enter the human world when Twilight starts to open portals by accident. Spike starts chasing it, and that's what leads him into jumping into the stream of magic that gave him the ability to speak.
In the first arc of the IDW comic, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie are attacked by vampiric jackalopes with bright pink, blue and yellow coats and sharp fangs, at least one of which has moose rather than deer antlers. As the names suggest, these are very much the aggressive kind of jackalope and are also the natural enemies of the Chupacabra.
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Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: The Tome of Beasts series of sourcebooks by Kobold Press have several examples.
Wampus cats are created when a priest curses a woman, transforming her into a carnivorous beast that maintains her old head but now fixed to the body of a mountain lioness. They have a Compelling Voice they use to seek revenge on men, especially the male priests who created them in the first place.
Hodags are vicious woodland brutes vaguely resembling giant cats with toad-like heads sporting both sabre teeth and bull's horns, a row of spikes down their back, and covered in green-and-brown-striped fur.
Aniwyes are an unusual example in that they are based on Native American Mythology rather than the folklore of the colonists. They're a race of giant wereskunks, able to assume to switch between the form of an ogre or a hill giant and the form of a bear-sized predatory skunk armed with lethally poisonous musk. Their "human" forms can be distinguished by the fact they always have jet black hair parted by a white stripe.
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d20 Modern includes various American monsters, such as the Montauk Demon (a trans-dimensional evil Energy Being race that was attracted to Earth by the Philadelphia Experiment).
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Brotherhood of the Wolf has the lead character show the Fur-Bearing Trout to French aristocrats until one catches onto the forgery. It allows him to talk about his theory on the nature of the Wolf.
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Sheriff Callie's Wild West: Bo maintains a pen filled with jackalopes. They're somewhat feisty and prone to trying to escape, but Sheriff Callie is able to rope them up with her trusty noodle lasso.
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Silver John: Several stories feature such critters, particularly "The Desrick on Yandro", which features several varieties. John himself may be the only man ever to have seen the Behinder (aka the Hidebehind) and lived (it was concentrating on being behind someone else at the time); he declines to describe it, saying only that he'd have been happier not to have had to look at it.
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Pathfinder has quite a few other cryptids and American folkloric beasts in it:
Hodags are fierce, hulking reptilian quadrupeds found in isolated wildernesses. They are tenacious and fearsome predators and have gained a reputation for being actively cruel and malicious among the loggers and pioneers that deal with them most often.
Digmauls are stout, puma-like cats with tails ending in spiked clubs, and hunt by ambushing prey from high branches and beating it to death with their tail clubs. Silvercats are a variety of rare, bluish-grey digmauls with smooth, rather than spiked, tails.
There's even an Expy of the Jersey Devil in the form of the equine, rather than cervine or caprine, Sandpoint Devil.
The snallygaster appears pretty much as described above, as a vicious, Chaotic Evil predator. It's said the one thing they enjoy more than drinking blood is drinking alcohol.
A more obscure Fearsome Critter, the Gowrow (of Arkansas folklore) also shows up as a kind of small, tusked dragon. The tusks are carried over from folklore, but the wings are a new addition.
The cuero appears as a stingray-like river predator known for attacking farmers' livestock, draining them of their blood and leaving the husks on the shore. It's said they seem to have a particular taste for the blood of ungulates.
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Genesis: The song "Squonk" is entirely about the title creature and the famous legend that surrounds it: a man manages to capture the elusive being, trapping it in a bag; however, when he tries to show off his find to others, he finds that his bag is full of water. The Squonk, morose, has dissolved into its own tears.
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Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: In Cookies and Campers, in the camp's nature barn, there's a Jackalope on exhibition:
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Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido: A few of the Sushi Sprites resemble some of these creatures, most notably Pyonten evoking a jackalope and Batten with the dingbat, due to the general pattern they have of taking a common animal and giving it horns.
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Ted's Caving Page: The Hodag is mentioned in passing.
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GURPS Fantasy Bestiary includes several types of fearsome critters.
Cactus cats are very speedy felines with sharp projections of bone growing from their paws. Their favorite method of attack is to run quickly by their targets, slashing them with their blades as they go. They are also known to enjoy eating psychoactive cacti, hence their name.
Hodags are fierce, swamp-dwelling beasts about as big as a moose, with a ridge of spines down their backs. They have no knee joints, and thus sleep by leaning against trees. People hunt them by partially sawing through the trees they sleep against, so that these break when the animal leans against them and tip the hodag to the ground. They are also known to walk backward, making them difficult to track.
Hoop snakes are highly venomous and can outrun any creature alive while rolling with their tails in their mouths, but must straighten out to pass through rough terrain or over obstacles — as they're much slower when doing this, people pursued by hoop snakes are advised to head for broken terrain.
Sliver cats, or ball-tailed cats, are puma-like felines with long tails tipped with bony maces. They wait in trees for passing prey, which they brain with their tails. If a group passes by its hiding spot, a sliver cat will strike the hindmost member and hope the rest won't notice.
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Although she outwardly lacks horns, Amiya from Arknights is based on a jackalope, being of the Cautus race (thus having rabbit ears) and also being the legitimate Sarkaz King (i.e king over a demon-based race who usually bear horns). She later appears wearing a pointed black crown (the Civilight Eterna), giving the image of a horned hare. As a bonus, she is one of the many characters who suffer from an illness that causes hard 'tumors' to grow on skin.
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Huckleberry: A newspaper shows an artist's depiction of a hoopsnake — a snake spinning hula hoops around its body.
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Redneck Rampage: Jackalopes are enemies in Redneck Rampage Rides Again. A giant version also appears as the final boss.
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In Friendship Games, a jackalope is the first creature to enter the human world when Twilight starts to open portals by accident. Spike starts chasing it, and that's what leads him into jumping into the stream of magic that gave him the ability to speak.
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Rampage: In Rampage: Total Destruction, there's a monster known as Jack the Jackalope.
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Gravity Falls:
One of the shorts focuses on the Hide Behind, depicted at the end as a dark, slender, skeletal silhouette that contorts itself in various ways to hide behind things.
There's a mounted fur trout for sale in the Mystery Shack's gift shop.
A picture of a jackalope appears in the show's opening. Mabel insists on calling them Antle-abbits, claiming that Jackalope "doesn't sound right".
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