#Cryptids
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Birdwomen
Family: Harpyidae
Birdwomen are the most common of magical creatures, appearing on every continent except for Antarctica*. Opportunistic omnivores, birdwomen take the form of massive carrion birds, typically corvids, vultures, condors and eagles, with the heads of women. They appear to be exclusively female; however, some species such as the Mediterranean harpy (Harpia strophades) do pair up during the mating season, with members impressing prospective partners by inflating a pair of gular sacks at the base of the throat similar to the behaviour of frigatebirds (family Fregatidae) and the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus).
The magic of most species of birdwomen are affiliated with storms and disease. The alkonost (Harpia bilibinae) lays its eggs in the sea, and their hatching causes thunderstorms to form, while the droppings of the Mediterranean harpy immediately befoul food.
While most species are reluctant to directly attack humans, birdwomen have no qualms in consuming carrion. Multiple cultures report birdwomen as constant companions to sites of battle and bloodshed. Nordic myths of Valkyries spiriting away the dead are almost certainly inspired by the sight of Scandinavian species of birdwomen feasting on the bodies of the slain after battle, possibly the crested harpy (Valkyria cristatus), nicknamed by professional harpiers as the "Thor's falcon."
The North American birdwoman (Harpia canadensis) is the largest known species of birdwoman, with species standing between five and six feet tall, with respective wingspans of 12 to 15 feet wide. Easily identified by their black, iridescent plumage, North American birdwomen exhibit an intelligent, often playful and curious personality. While native to western and central Canada and the northwestern United States, one birdwoman was sighted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia through the late 1960s; following the 1967 Silver Bridge collapse, one harpier reported seeing this same birdwoman consuming the bodies of two disappeared travellers who had washed up downriver.
*Sightings of the "penguinwomen" of Antarctica are unsubstantiated and should not be counted as fact.
#harpies#unreality#narrativia#i have spiderwick on the brain and this happened#valkyries#norse mythology#mothman#cryptids
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My family is everything but normal
My mum is a conspiracy theorist
My dad is an ex-Ghost hunter and cryptid spotter
My brother is questioning being a crabkin
And I am a cat w wings
+ we are all neurodivergent
#alterhuman#nonhuman#theriotype#catkin#cat therian#feline therian#felinekin#otherkin community#otherkin#cat theriotype#cat alterhuman#alterhumans#alterhuman community#alterhumanity#nonhumen#therians#therianthrope#therianthropy#therian#otherkins#otherkinity#cryptids#cryptid#nonhumanity#none human#nonhuman community#non human#trans species#neurodivergent#autism spectrum disorder
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Cryptid of the Day: Unidentified Flying Humanoids
Description: Throughout the 20th & 21st centuries, people around the world have seen flying humanoids, usually silhouetted in darkness & floating in the air, sometimes with wings. What they are, has caused speculation, from alien to angels/demons, to mistaken common objects
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#found footage#horror#cryptids#sightings#creepypasta#creatures#monsters#demons#oddcore#dreamcore#liminalcore#lostcore#creepycore#weirdcore
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IM FREAKING OUT
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If I ever get to draw an official Hellboy and Moth-Man comic I’m going to demand this scene be in it
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The funniest thing about all the speculation regarding the origins of the Bigfoot myth is that we know where it came from. It was a prank carried out by a guy named Ray Wallace who vandalised a couple of logging camps in California in 1958 while wearing fake feet to conceal his identity. They literally found his collection of giant wooden feet in his basement after he died in 2002, his involvement has been corroborated by multiple accomplices, and the timing of the incidents precisely lines up with when interest in Bigfoot exploded in American popular culture. We've known all this for twenty years, and everybody just quietly ignores it because it's no fun, I guess.
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Mythical Beasts of Germany
by u/NeilParkinsonMakes
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Cryptid fish that has only been seen once and never again that may or may not exist but well never know my beloved
#BIG FUCKING DRAGONFISH IS JUST THERE IN THR SEA and HAS ONLY BEEN SEEN ONCE and NO ONE FUCKING KNOWS IF ITS REal????#oceanology#fish#marine biology#marine life#marine ecology#oceanography#deep ocean#marine#deep sea#conspiracy#cryptid#cryptids#cryptozoology#USO#conspiracy theory#marine fish#William Beebe#Otis Barton#fish facts#ocean life
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Cryptid of the Day: Old Yellow Top
Description: After the silver boom in 1906 Cobalt, Ontario, did stories of a hairy apeman surface. They call it Old Yellow Top, due to it having a blonde patch of hair on its head. It was last seen on August 4th, 1970, when 27 miners saw the creature walking down a road late at night
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#fantasy#monsters#monster lover#sympathetic monster#demon#fey#alien#cryptids#eldrich horrors#eldrichcore#196#silly#r 196#urban fantasy#hornyposting
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Tumblr Tuesday: WooOOooOOOOhh!
Happy Halloween, Tumblr. We hope everyone is enjoying trick-or-treating and all the cursed images you're sending each other. From cute to creepy via weird and wonderful, here's a selection of Halloween art from your very own #Artists on Tumblr.
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#halloween art#artists on tumblr#original art#fanart#good omens#the sandman#dreamling#fnaf#the mandalorian#grogu#welcome home#dnd#character design#cryptids#pokémon#gif#long post
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Had a dream that there was a furry subculture revolving entirely around popular cryptids where nobody knew exactly what anybody else's fursona actually looked like because they exclusively drew themselves blurry and out of focus and/or really far away.
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