Welcome to the final episode of Monsters' Advocate! Congratulations on reaching the end with me, lets send the show off with some encounters that are just too compelling to not include~

References

War-Time Sea Monsters

https://www.top5s.co.uk/5-amazing-cryptid-sightings/

http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/UB-85_Atrocity

http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/U-28_Creature

Grootslangs

Floyd, Rendall (September 20, 1998). "Disappearances feed Grootslang legend". The Augusta Chronicle.

Rose, Carol (2001). Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 156. ISBN 0-393-32211-4.

White, Jon Ewbank Manchip (1969). The land God made in anger: reflections on a journey through South West Africa. Rand McNally. p. 300.

https://verybizarrestories.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/the-grootslang-guardian-of-the-treasure/

Upright Canines

Godfrey, Linda S. (2003). The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin's Werewolf. Black Earth, Wisconsin: Prairie Oak Press. ISBN 9781879483910

https://www.prairieghosts.com/brayrd.html

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Join me for a scenic tour of the Garden State, and get in on the juciest Quaker gossip!

References

Moran, Mark and Sceurman, Mark (2004). Weird N.J.: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

S. E. Schlosser. "Joseph Bonaparte and the Jersey Devil". Archived from the original on 2010-02-02.

The Jersey Devil & Pine Barrens Folklore - New Jersey Pine Barrens - Pinelands Preservation Alliance". Pinelandsalliance.org. Retrieved 2014-01-04.

https://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_jersey_devil_the_real_story

https://www.prairieghosts.com/jerseydevil.html

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Lets take some back roads through the country to meet some downright ominous doggos!

Reference

El Cadejo

Burchell, Simon (2007) Phantom Black Dogs in Latin America, Heart of Albion Press

http://mexicounexplained.com/cadejos-gigantic-dogs-good-evil/

Barghest

Briggs, Katharine (1976). An Encyclopedia of Fairies. Pantheon Books. pp. 16–17.

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Barghest". Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 399.

Henderson, William (1879). "Ch. 7". Notes on the folk-lore of the northern counties of England and the borders (2nd ed.). Folk-Lore Society. p. 275.

Simpson, Jacqueline and Roud, Steve (2000, 2003). Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860766-0.

https://www.britannica.com/art/Barghest

Cŵn Annwn

Matthews, John; Matthews, Caitlín (2005). The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures. HarperElement. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-4351-1086-1.

The Black Dog of the Hanging Hills

Connecticut Windows on the Natural World. Retrieved December 13, 2007.

Cù-Sith

Campbell, J. G. (1900). Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland: Collected Entirely from Oral Sources. Maclehouse. pp. 30–32.

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This week, lets meet some creatures who are probably more scared of thunderstorms than your dog, some creatures that just would really love to meat you, and a race that is mostly known by their absence

References

Trolls

Ármann Jakobsson (2008). "The Trollish Acts of Þorgrímr the Witch: The Meanings of Troll and Ergi in Medieval Iceland" in Saga-Book 32 (2008), 39–68.

Lindow, John (1978). Swedish Folktales and Legends. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03520-8

Orchard, Andy (1997). Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend. Cassell. ISBN 0-304-34520-2

https://mythology.net/norse/norse-creatures/troll/

Ogres and Onis

Lim, Shirley; Ling, Amy (1992). Reading the literatures of Asian America. Temole University Press. p. 242. ISBN 978-0-87722-935-3.

Mack, Carol; Mack, Dinah (1998). A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels, and Other Subversive Spirits. Arcade Publishing. p. 116. ISBN 978-1-55970-447-2.

Rose, Carol. Giants, Monsters, & Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. ISBN 0-393-32211-4

"Ogre." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 15 May 2006, search.eb.com

Giants

Georg Autenrieth, A Homeric Dictionary, on Perseus Digital Library

https://www.britannica.com/topic/giant-mythology

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythic-creatures/land-creatures-of-the-earth/greek-giants

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This week, lets get into the spirit by meeting some winter goddesses~

References

Cailleach

McNeill, F. Marian (1959). The Silver Bough, Vol. 1 -4. William MacLellan, Glasgow

Robertson, Boyd; Ian McDonald (2004). Gaelic Dictionary. Hodder Education, Teach Yourself Series. pp. 24–25. ISBN 0-07-142667-1.

https://ericwedwards.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/the-cailleach/

Celitc owls

http://livinglibraryblog.com/owl-of-the-celts-ancient-bride-of-the-dead/

http://irishhedgerows.weebly.com/folklore.html

https://www.owlpages.com/owls/articles.php

Blodeuwedd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blodeuwedd

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Welcome back everyone! I brought you dog friend who is also a god and the sun's BFF~

References

Mexican Hairless Dog

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Hairless_Dog

http://www.xoloitzcuintliclubofamerica.org/about_xolos

Xolotl

Maffie, James (2013). Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion. University Press of Colorado. ISBN 1-45718-426-5.

Milbrath, Susan (2013). Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico: Astronomy and Seasonal Cycles in the Codex Borgia. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-74373-1.

Seler, Eduard (2010). Mexican And Central American Antiquities, Calendar Systems And History. translated by Charles P. Bowditch. Kessinger Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-169-14785-0.

Read, Kay Almere; Jason González (2000). Handbook of Mesoamerican Mythology. Oxford: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-85109-340-0.

Twins in Mesoamerican Mythology

https://cola.unh.edu/sites/cola.unh.edu/files/student-journals/Spectrum15_rideout_rev.pdf

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1005&context=uhp_theses

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This week, lets really stick our hands into the mouth of knowledge! Reallyyyy reach blindly in there. Maybe, if we're lucky, we'll even catch a big one.

References

Catfish Fax

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Pangasianodon gigas" in FishBase.

Nelson, Joseph S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25031-7.

Lundberg, John G.; Friel, John P. (20 January 2003). "Siluriformes". Tree of Life Web Project

Robins, Robert H. "Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Walking Catfish". Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29.

Noodling

Deborah A. Salazar (2002). "Noodling: An American Folk Fishing Technique". The Journal of Popular Culture. 35 (4): 145–155. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.2002.3504_145.x

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/11/killer-catfish-american-myths-of-monstrous-man-eating-catfish/

Piraiba

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2007). "Brachyplatystoma filamentosum" in FishBase. Apr 2007 version.

Petrere, Miguel Jr.; Barthem, Ronaldo Borges; Córdoba, Edwin Agudelo; Gómez, Bernardo Corrales (2004). "Review of the large catfish fisheries in the upper Amazon and the stock depletion of piraíba (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum Lichtenstein)" (PDF). Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 14 (4): 403–414.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160104-does-the-candiru-fish-really-eat-human-penises

Goonch

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Bagarius yarrelli" in FishBase.

"Goonch Catfish". Animal Planet. 2014-04-15.

Wels Catfish

Cucherousset, J.; Boulêtreau, S. P.; Azémar, F. D. R.; Compin, A.; Guillaume, M.; Santoul, F. D. R. (2012). Steinke, Dirk, ed. ""Freshwater Killer Whales": Beaching Behavior of an Alien Fish to Hunt Land Birds". PLoS ONE. 7 (12): e50840. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050840

Yong, Ed. "The catfish that strands itself to kill pigeons". Discover Magazine.

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/cryptozoology/the-mysterious-wels-catfish/

Namazu

Smits, Gregory (Summer 2006). "Shaking up Japan: Edo Society and the 1855 Catfish Picture Prints" (PDF). Journal of Social History. 39 (4): 1045–1078. doi:10.1353/jsh.2006.0057.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/namazu-the-earthshaker/

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Whats orange and black and living as your neighbor? The answer may surprise you!

Tigers and Were-tigers

Goodrich, J.; Lynam, A.; Miquelle, D.; Wibisono, H.; Kawanishi, K.; Pattanavibool, A.; Htun, S.; Tempa, T.; Karki, J.; Jhala, Y. & Karanth, U. (2015). "Panthera tigris". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2015: e.T15955A50659951.

Stephen Mills (2004). Tiger. Firefly Books. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-55297-949-5. OCLC 57209158

Summers, Montague; Heinrich Kramer, James Sprenger (2000). The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger. Book Tree. pp. 61–65.

Summers, Montague (1966). The Werewolf. University Books. p. 21.

Thomas, Northcote Whitridge (1911). "Lycanthropy". In Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 150.

https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2014/04/09/why-have-tigers-been-feared-and-revered-throughout-history/

"Tigers In Culture And Folklore". Amelia Meyer (Tigers – The most majestic cats in the world). 2013.

Foxes, Huli-Jing and Kitsune

Hamel, Frank (2003). Human Animals. Kessinger. ISBN 0766167003.

Kang, Xiaofei (2006). The cult of the fox: Power, gender, and popular religion in late imperial and modern China. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231133388.

Macdonald, D. W.; Reynolds, J. C. (2008). "'Vulpes vulpes'". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 20 September 2013.

Yonebayashi, T. (1964). "Kitsunetsuki (Possession by Foxes)". Transcultural Psychiatry. 1 (2): 95–97. doi:10.1177/136346156400100206.

https://mythology.net/japanese/japanese-creatures/kitsune/

https://thesupernaturalfoxsisters.com/2016/08/09/monster-of-the-week-huli-jing/

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This is our final episode for the dragon series, so lets go out in style by learning where rainbows come from, nominating 2 monsters for dragonhood, and spending some time with some big Hawaiian lizards

References

Amaru

Steele, Paul R. (2004). "Encyclopedia of Mythic Narratives, Themes, and Concepts". Handbook of Inca Mythology. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. pp. 95–98. ISBN 1576073548.

Smith, S. (2011). "Generative landscapes: the step mountain motif in Tiwanaku iconography" (Automatic PDF download). Ancient America. 12: 1–69.

Piasa

Coleman, Loren and Clark, Jerome. Cryptozoology A-Z, Fireside. 1999. ISBN 978-0-684-85602-5

Marquette, Jacques. Journal. The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America. Allan Greer, ed. Bedford/St. Martin's: Boston, New york, p. 205.

Underwater Panther

Jesuit Relations, Volume LIV. Chapter XI. Section 26. pp. 152-153. http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/relations_54.html

Strom, Karen M. (August 3, 1996). "Morrisseau's Missipeshu – Cultural Preservation". Native American Indian Resources.

Horned Serpent

Grantham, Bill. Creation Myths and Legends of the Creek Indians. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8130-2451-6 .

Morell, Virginia (December 2005). "Sea Monsters". National Geographic, pages 74–75.

Mo’o

http://www.mariealohalanibrown.com/blogmdashka699u-wahi-p363699olo/moo-olelo-moo-stories-lecture-on-moo-hawaiian-reptilian-water-deities-for-the-kohala-center-puana-ka-ike-series-february-23-2012

https://mauimagazine.net/the-sacred-spine/

http://www.ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?e=d-0beckwit1-000Sec--11en-50-20-frameset-book--1-010escapewin&a=d&d=D0.11.6&toc=0

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