CREATURE FEATURE

CUPID

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.

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COYOTE

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.

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KRAMPUS

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?

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KELPIE

This month's Creature Feature comes with a side of Horsey Sauce.

Giddy up! Introducing… the kelpie! And not the dog. Think more aquatic. Think more equine. Okay, think less seahorse. Now think more seahorse. Got it? Whatever, just keep reading.

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HODAG

A myth to take a Michigander at.

Journey, if you will, to the northern Midwest town of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. In the late 1800s, Anderson Brown traveled from Stevens Point up to the nexus of the Wisconsin and Pelican Rivers. The high banks and towering pines made Brown’s imagination soar with the possibilities of opening… a lumber mill! Hey, people weren’t too imaginative back then. But, once Anderson convinced his daddy to give him money, the town of Rhinelander was born.

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