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Post by Sindran on Dec 18, 2018 22:37:38 GMT
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Post by WannabeDemonLord on Dec 18, 2018 23:51:38 GMT
Oh yes. This book. I can't think of any mythical creature resources I have more of a love/hate relationship with. On the one hand, loads and loads of creatures, including tons of creatures from underrepresented regions, which is awesome. On the other hand, it really goes out of its way to omit references to the weirder/more monstrous traits of the vast majority of the creatures in order to make them seem more like creatures with the potential to actually exist. A lot of cryptid resources do that, which is frustrating to say the least. I guarantee you that there's way more to most of those North American ogres than the book indicates. I just wish I knew what there was.
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Post by Sindran on Dec 19, 2018 0:18:35 GMT
Yeah, I usually use vast dictionaries like this as a starting point. Pretty annoying at times.
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Post by QuirkyBestiary on Dec 20, 2018 11:39:17 GMT
Yeah, agreed. There are loads of creatures in those sorts of books which have really intriguing descriptions but it's really difficult to find more information on them, even though you're certain that there should be more details. The Eberhart books specifically are guilty of doing the same thing, specifically with the North American ogres - which are all represented as naught more than Bigfoot variants.
I actually already had these books, but having an online version, which is presumably both of them combined, is really helpful. It allows me to condense my research down into less places at once. Also, I've just rediscovered the Afonya, and it's really cool. I'm thinking that it would look like a really tall, bipedal, hirsute Dover Demon.
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