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Also known as ?huitzotl · Water Dog
An aquatic being recorded by Nahua informants in the Florentine Codex: doglike in outline, with slick fur, small pointed ears, and a…
Also known as Kianpraty
The water-dweller of Aboriginal tradition, known under many names across many nations, and consistent in one thing: the warning.…
Also known as Kawatarō · River Child
A child-sized amphibious creature with a turtle's shell, a beaked face, and a dish-like depression on its crown that must stay filled…
Also known as Nessie · An Niseag
The archetypal lake cryptid. Surface accounts describe one to three smooth humps, a long neck raised periscope-fashion, and a wake…
Also known as N'ha-a-itk · Naitaka
A serpentine lake creature described across two centuries of accounts as twelve to fifteen meters of dark, multi-humped body moving…
Also known as Qalupalik · Qallupilluk
Beings beneath the sea ice whose names, number, and appearance vary among Inuit communities. A commonly published form is humanlike,…