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Club-Tailed Glyptodont/Clubtailed Glyptodont
The Club-Tailed Glyptodont is a strange creature from Lumberjack Folklore. Often found in Texas, they can be seen throwing large boulders up mountains to watch them roll back down. They have large flat tails made of a substance similar to a bull’s horns, but their tails are also incredibly springy. They use their tails to pick up the boulders they throw, to bounce through the air, and to cushion even the highest falls. When throwing a boulder into the air they stand on their back legs, spin around, and hit the boulder with their tail to launch it. Citations: Bratcher, James T.. Analytical Index to Publications of the Texas Folklore…
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Chuchunya
The Chuchunya is a hairy hominid from East Siberia. They stand 6-7 feet tall, have heavy builds, prominent brow ridges and are covered in dark hair. Some are sighted alone, while some are sighted in small groups. Sometimes they are described as wearing animal skin clothes. They are omnivores who eat berries, fish, and reindeer. Some believe that several Chuchunya were killed by the Russian military during their civil war. Citations: Newton, Michael. Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide to Hidden Animals and Their Pursuers. United States, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2014.
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Chorti
The Chorti are mythical creatures from Mexico and Guatemala. They resemble hairy humanoids standing seven feet tall or larger, with arms and shoulders heavily packed with muscles. They have bowed legs and long ape-like arms with large claws at the end of their fingers for tearing bark off trees, cracking stones, and decapitating humans. Sometimes they’re described with backward facing feet by the Yaqui native americans. On occasion, they are viewed as nature spirits that guard forests, and other times just violent predatory creatures that kill humans to feed on their flesh and blood. They are known to leave footprints and claw marks on trees that have been seen and…
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Chonchon
The Chonchon are mythical creatures from the Mapuche people of Chile. They’re a vampiric form of witches with vulture-like heads and some believe it is an undead creature. Sometimes they take the form of birds with the head of a Kalku and they can shapeshift to appear as people with large ears. They’re a form of Wekufe, summoned by a Kalku and hunted by the Machi. They swoop down and knock people to the ground, ripping out their throats to feed on their blood. They can be driven away by warriors using weapons enchanted by a Machi, but can only be killed by Familiars of the Machi turned into snakes…
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Chindi
The Chindi is a form of ghost from Navajo myth. They are believed to be all the wickedness of a person leaving their body after death. They cause mischief and sickness for any of their living relatives. If proper rituals are performed the Chindi will blow away in the wind and fade into the night sky. Citations: Maberry, Jonathan. Vampire Universe: The Dark World of Supernatural Beings That Haunt Us, Hunt Us, and Hunger for Us. United States, Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2006.
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Chimera
The Chimera is from Greek mythology and is the daughter of Typhon and Echidna. It caused havoc in Lycia and the surrounding area. It is thought to have had the front half of a lion, the back half of a dragon (or a full lion body with a snake, or three snakes, for a tail) and the head of a goat in the middle of the back. Some said it had the lion’s head, the body of a female goat, and a snake’s tail. Other iterations said it had a lion, goat, and dragon head. It began killing the moment it was born. It was raised by a king of Caria…
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Children of Judas
The Children of Judas are from Serbian, Bulgarian, and Romanian myth. They are a type of vampire who always have red hair and can drain victims of every drop of blood through a single bite. Their bite marks often resemble the way the Latin number thirty is written, XXX, symbolizing the amount of silver Judas took to betray Jesus. Citations: Maberry, Jonathan. Vampire Universe: The Dark World of Supernatural Beings That Haunt Us, Hunt Us, and Hunger for Us. United States, Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2006.
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Childers Shapeless Alien
The Childers Shapeless Aliens were creatures sighted near Childers, Australia. They were sighted on January 14th, 1969 at 4:30 am. A man named George Vas and his wife and daughters woke up to a dog barking something sounding like a swarm of wasps. They traced the sound to a sombrero-shaped object glowing purple that was 25-30 yards in diameter. Three beings exited the UFO to gather sugar cane and other plants. These aliens glowed yellow and purple and were three times the size of a human with blocky arms and legs and a formless body. They descended in a slightly smaller craft of similar shape, and when they got close…
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Cheuksin/Cheuksingaksi/Cheuksinbuin
heuyCheuksin is the Korean goddess of the outhouse. She is known to be powerful but also incredibly hostile. She has long hair and uses this hair to choke people who surprise her, and being strangled by Cheuksin causes an incurable illness. It is advised to cough before entering to the bathroom to avoid startling her. Incidents occurring in outhouses were seen as curses and often related back to Cheuksin. To avoid these curses, a sacrifice of rice cakes was required if someone fell into the toilet. While not worshiped on a regular basis, small offerings are made after memorial services, torn off and offered to her without holding vessels. Additionally…
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Cherufe
The Cherufe is a creature originating from the myths of the Mapuche and Araucanian people of Chile and Argentina. The Cherufe is thought to inhabit magma pools and active volcanoes, and the body of the Cherufe is thought to be made of the same molten materials. The Cherufe is described in various manners. – Some in cryptozoology believe the Cherufe to be an undiscovered species capable of living in magma pools. Often these are depicted as lizard-like humanoids. – Some stories say that the Cherufe came to earth as cannibalistic giants disguised as comets. Sometimes they’re described like dragons, or giant humanoids with reptilian skin. These Cherufe prey on any who…
