#cryptic creatures

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In Alpine folklore, the Tatzelwurm or Stollenwurm, Stollwurm is a lizard-like creature, often described as having the face of a cat, with a serpent-like body which may be slender or stubby, with four short legs or two forelegs.

haha jk...........unless??

Cat skeleton: Aether

The raudkembingur (redcomb) is especially cruel and bloodthirsty even by illhveli standards. Icelandic folklore requires you avoid saying the names of evil whales, so instead you use all sorts of euphemisms for their names. Otherwise they will hear you and come to kill you. If you manage to escape it, it will die of frustration. Their greatest enemy is the steypireydur (the blue whale).

The Alula whale was discussed and illustrated for the first time, but not formally named, by W. F. J. Mörzer Bruyns in Field Guide of Whales and Dolphins, purportedly being seen by the author several times. It resembles a sepia brown killer whale with a well-rounded forehead and white, star-like scars on the body. He wrote they are present in the deep coastal waters in eastern Gulf of Aden to Socotra.

Monstrum Marinum humana facie. Picture C 3 in page 27 of the book Monstrorum historia cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium (1642)

The Bake-kujira (Ghost Whale). The ghostly whale skeleton that appears on rainy nights near costal whaling Japanese villages.