(09-17-2024, 03:30 AM)FlickerOfLight Wrote:(09-17-2024, 01:18 AM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: I just glanced through, but I rather like the Native American Bagwajinini translated as "the little wild man of the woods that vanishes". However, better known as the Pukwudgies. Chaotic half-porcupine, half-human little folk that carry a poisoned spear or bow and arrow and that have no problem messing you up if you bother them.
Weird little boogers. What's interesting is how there are so many different tales of little creatures like this.
This is the first I'd heard of a half beaver half humanoid, and I've never heard of them shape shifting, either.
With so much different lore, from so many different places, it kind of makes you wonder.
This also reminded me of The Spiderwick Chronicles. Seems like there were little beaver creatures in that as well. I don't remember anything like this in Harry Potter, even though it is mentioned in the article.
I remember the scene in Harry Potter, just don't remember which movie. They were small, about the right size, but more humanoid and they were workers in some specific occupation at the school I believe. Certainly nothing like the legends in most every aspect really, but what do you expect in a Harry Potter movie?
I started researching them because of Detroit's little red devil the Le Nain Rouge. The evil bastard child of a Pukwudgie and stone giant.
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