Post by QuirkyBestiary on Jan 20, 2019 15:23:07 GMT
I know that abookofcreatures will've already seen this message and has confirmed that they have no idea where I got this anomalous information from. I know that the Velue/Peluda is meant to be a stubby-limbed dragon with a serpentine head, noxious breath and porcupine-like quills, but I found a radically different description of the entity in the book ‘Monster! An A-Z of Zooform Phenomena’ by Neil Arnold. In this book, he instead describes the Velue thusly:
This is a strange, snake-headed humanoid with quite a history. It resided in French folklore as a beast covered in green fur with long, tentacled suckers on its flesh. The creature killed its prey by using the sting from its suckers, and was a threat to humans. It was hunted on several occasions, but always disappeared into the Huisine river, until finally it was destroyed.
I’ve looked for information on the Velue as separate from the Peluda, but could honestly find nothing. The Yara-Ma-Yha-Who wasn’t described as a creature with venomous suckers and a snake head, though, right? I know that it has suckered fingers but it presumably lacks the other features of Arnold’s ‘Velue’…
I remember that wannabedemonlord has contacted Neil Arnold to get the sources for some of the more obscure creatures mentioned in the book in question, but it turns out that Mr. Arnold has since lost his interest in cryptozoology and has gotten rid of the sources that he used – which is really irritating! There are some amazing creatures listed in that book, most of which are modern but there are some really obscure ancient creatures such as a benevolent purple-skinned phantom hound that I cannot remember the name of.
So it seems as if we have no way to find out where Arnold found his information for the Velue. The details seem oddly specific and really intriguing, which is what irritates me about not being able to find it at all.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be? Where did he get this idea and how on earth did he come to such a different conclusion as to the identity of the Velue? Is this idea even remotely mythologically valid, because I would really like to use it in my bestiary project!
This is a strange, snake-headed humanoid with quite a history. It resided in French folklore as a beast covered in green fur with long, tentacled suckers on its flesh. The creature killed its prey by using the sting from its suckers, and was a threat to humans. It was hunted on several occasions, but always disappeared into the Huisine river, until finally it was destroyed.
I’ve looked for information on the Velue as separate from the Peluda, but could honestly find nothing. The Yara-Ma-Yha-Who wasn’t described as a creature with venomous suckers and a snake head, though, right? I know that it has suckered fingers but it presumably lacks the other features of Arnold’s ‘Velue’…
I remember that wannabedemonlord has contacted Neil Arnold to get the sources for some of the more obscure creatures mentioned in the book in question, but it turns out that Mr. Arnold has since lost his interest in cryptozoology and has gotten rid of the sources that he used – which is really irritating! There are some amazing creatures listed in that book, most of which are modern but there are some really obscure ancient creatures such as a benevolent purple-skinned phantom hound that I cannot remember the name of.
So it seems as if we have no way to find out where Arnold found his information for the Velue. The details seem oddly specific and really intriguing, which is what irritates me about not being able to find it at all.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be? Where did he get this idea and how on earth did he come to such a different conclusion as to the identity of the Velue? Is this idea even remotely mythologically valid, because I would really like to use it in my bestiary project!
