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Spooktober: Monster Mash - Dirt 159

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This week, we lift our spirits (oooOOOooo) with a round-up of monsters. We explore their origins and effects on us, with examples ranging from memories of very real things in the past to a hypothesis that doesn't quite have legs (unlike griffins).

Links

  • Why we'll always be obsessed with – and afraid of – monsters (The Conversation)
  • Why the scariest monsters look almost human (Wellcome Collection)
  • Why We Still Need Monsters (Nautilus)
  • Why Are So Many Monsters Hybrids? (Nautilus)
  • A History of Monsters (Aeon)
  • Why do we want to feel sorry for monsters that scare us? (Gizmodo)
  • Why Frankenstein is the story that defines our fears (BBC)
  • Neanderthals, Scandinavian trolls, and troglodytes (Norwegian American)
  • Ōnamazu (Yokai.com)
  • Namazu-e: Earthquake catfish prints (Pink Tentacle)
  • Namazu (World History Encyclopedia)
  • Giant catfish and a legacy of disaster in one of the world's most seismically active regions (Phys.org)
  • Folklore and earthquakes: Native American oral traditions from Cascadia compared with written traditions from Japan (Geological Society, London, Special Publications via ResearchGate)
  • Why Protoceratops almost certainly wasn't the inspiration for the griffin legend (Mark Witton)
  • Griffin Bones (American Museum of Natural History)
  • Andrewsarchus, "Superb Skull of a Gigantic Beast" (American Museum of Natural History)
  • Jumbies of the West Indies (The Brown Geeks)
  • Rare Book Library Summons Tales of World’s Oldest Monsters (Smithsonian)
  • The evolution of monsters in children’s literature (Nature)
  • A Visual History of Society’s Monsters (Hyperallergic)
  • The Nazi Werewolves Who Terrorized Allied Soldiers at the End of WWII (Smithsonian)
  • Doin’ The Mash (Tedium)
  • The strange tale of ‘Monster Ma

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