CREATURE FEATURE
A Creature Feature with a fatal flaw.
As the weather gets nicer, it’s inevitable that Folklords will venture back out on the trails that winter and spring rendered unrunnable. It’s also inevitable that somebody somewhere will push themselves too hard and wind up with one of the most common runner ailments: Achilles tendonitis. To some of us, it’s our Achilles heel, if you will. But more specifically, it’s a tendon, as previously stated.
A myth with origins somewhere over the rainbow.
In the age of PC culture and empathy, one group thankfully remains fair game to shit on: the Irish. Long have we maligned and stereotyped the lovable lads from the land of Eyre as beatniks, drunkards, hoodlums, billy-club-toting policemen, ginger freaks, or potato-eating scum. But no characterization is perhaps more colorful than the leprechaun.
A myth after your own heart.
Every year as February begins and the Valentine’s Day propaganda starts flowing, we begin to see depictions of a little guy whose job is love. And no, I’m not talking about Mike Myers’s character in the Love Guru—I’m talking about Cupid.
Let's take a spiritual journey.
It’s a new year! A time of rejuvenation, rebirth, reinvention. So, this month’s Creature Feature is of course… the coyote? Let’s discuss.
A chilling yuletide cryptid.
Krampus? I hardly know us! Is that something? Since we can all agree that it’s something, we can move on to the meat of the story: the holidays! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and you know what that means. Come Christmas Eve, we’ll all be visited by a colorful figure of mythical proportions. Tall, bearded, red frock, satyr horns, cloven feet—wait, we’re thinking of the same guy, right?
