History Main / FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore

See also: YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy.

* A Hodag appears as a monster of the week in Season 2 of WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated

* The '''Hide-Behind''' is generally impossible to physically describe, as it's always hiding behind something: a tree, a rock, your chair as you read this entry...

* ''MagicTheGathering'' features a card called "Jackalope Herd".
* {{Mortasheen}} has the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/skwunk.htm Sqwunk]], based on the Squonk.
* {{Pathfinder}} has the Hodag and quite a few other cryptids and American folkloric beasts in it, even including an {{Expy}} of the Jersey Devil.
* {{Deadlands}} has Fearsome Critters among its "abominations", such as jackalopes and catamounts (evil, supernatural versions of the mountain lion).

The Fearsome Critters are a group of mythical beings from [[TallTalesTeller the stories told by European colonists to North America]], mainly in New England (naturally) in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but there are stories of Fearsome Critters spread all across the country, including several notable "species" specific to the southwest. Fearsome Critters are notable for being described primarily by their behavior, not by their appearance, and for often having names that reflect that (Hide-Behind, Come-at-a-Body, ''et cetera''), meaning that what they actually ''look'' like fluctuates wildly from tale to tale in the style of PaulBunyan--whose loyal friend and partner, Babe the Big Blue Ox, might well be a Critter himself.

* The '''Hide-Behind''' is generally impossible to physically describe, as it's always hiding behind something: a tree, a rock, your chair as you read this entry..
* The '''Hoop Snake''', a shy creature that bites its own tail and rolls away like a wheel at the sight of danger.

* The '''Glawackus''', a mixture of every (real) dangerous predator that stalks northeastern the American wilderness.

* One episode of ''EerieIndiana'' featured a jackalope, with the revelation that the ones that people are familiar with are [[spoiler: babies, while an adult is {{Godzilla}}-sized]].

* Several critters appear in the [[TallTalesTeller [=McBroom=]]] series by SidFleischman, notably ''[=McBroom=]'s Zoo.'' They include the Desert Goo-fang, the Compass Cat, and the Great 17-Toed Hairy Prairie Hidebehind.

* Several of ManlyWadeWellman's John the Balladeer stories; particularly "The Desrick on Yandro", which features several varieties of Critter. John himself is the only man ever to have seen the Behinder and lived (it was concentrating on being behind someone else at the time); he declines to describe it, saying only that he'd have been happier not to have had to look at it.

* The '''Axehandle Hound''', a scraggly white dog that feeds on axe handles left unattended in the woods at night; described by JorgeLuisBorges in the ''Book of Imaginary Beings''.

* The '''Hide-Behind''' is generally impossible to physically describe, as it's always hiding behind something: a tree, a rock, your chair as you read this entry..

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* ''BloomCounty'' went one further and had a bassalope--basset hound plus Jackalope.
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* "Sam & Max: On The Road" described jackalopes as the bastard sons of Piltdown Man.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' featured the Giant Fur-Bearing Trout, an ancient being of sacred wisdom.

* One episode of ''TinyToonAdventures'' featured a monstrous Jackalope named One-Eyed Jack.

* One episode of EarthwormJim featured the Giant Fur-Bearing Trout, an ancient being of sacred wisdom.

Sadly, any reported Jackalope sighting is much more likely to be a regular rabbit [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shope_papilloma_virus afflicted with the shope papilloma virus.]] {{Or is it}}?