Английская Википедия:Agropelter
The Agropelter (Anthrocephalus craniofractens)[1] is a mythical fearsome critter[1] said to inhabit hollow trees of the conifer woods from Maine to Oregon.[2] From this vantage point, the creature would await an unwary person and hurl wooden splinters and branches at the intruder.[2][3][4][5] Some have described the creature as being so quick that it has never been seen.[3] One reference describes the creature as having a "slender, wirely body, the villainous face of an ape, and arms like muscular whiplashes, with which it can snap off dead branches and hurl them through the air like shells from a six inch gun."[5]
The agropelter subsists on woodpeckers, hoot owls,[5] high-holes,[4] and dozy (rotten) wood.[4] Its pups are born on February 29 and always arrive in odd numbers.[4] They are blamed for the disappearance of people in northern forests.[6] When loggers died from branches falling on their heads, the agropelter was blamed for throwing the heavy branches.[7] Another reference describes the creature as having "the head of a gorilla or some other terrifying ape, but fully furred, and its body was like that of a stretched-out, starving bear."[8] They are also said to be "completely black save for its face, which had a spoken ash-grey skull pattern contrasting with the black of the rest of the animal".[8]
In one account, an agropelter kidnapped a pioneer surveyor and fed him raw fish until he escaped.[9]
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Wyman, Walker D. Mythical Creatures of the USA and Canada. (River Falls, WI: Univ of Wisconsin Riverfalls Press,1978.)
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 Cohen, Daniel. Monsters, Giants, and Little Men from Mars: An Unnatural History of the Americas. (New York: Doubleday, 1975)
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 4,2 4,3 Tryon, Henry Harrington. Fearsome Critters. (Cornwall, NY: Idlewild Press, 1939)
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 5,2 Cox, William T. with Latin Classifications by George B. Sudworth. Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods. (Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler Inc., 1910
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 8,0 8,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
