#forestcousin

On Monday April 21st a man took a long walk (reportedly 53 miles long) while wearing a giant curlew costume to raise awareness for World Curlew Day. It was Earth Day on Tuesday April 22nd, and tomorrow it will be Arbor Day, which falls on the 25th this year. In 1996, Arbor Day was on April 26th, and Yost commemorated the holiday with a Geranium Lake Propeties comic featuring a mask of one of the…

Master of the Taiga

This would be Mestari Kircanju, a forestcousin, which is the Inultaru’s version of a werewolf. Their animal shape is not so much a wolf as a wolverine, or fisher cat, and they can be as large as a bear or a man, or as small as a sled dog.

Metsän Kuninkaat (Kings of the Forest)

For a jackalope child, there is no limit to the number of godparents, but at least one of them should be a forestcousin. Jack Loki had four such creatures at his christening, invited by his Finnish grandmother. All were metsän kuninkaat with home territories near the river Kapperijoki in Finland.

In 1993, the first full moon of that year, the Wolf Moon, brightened the night sky on the eighth of January, so it is a safe guess that this unpublished Geranium Lake Properties comic illustrates that event. In 2025, the Wolf Moon will occur next Monday, on the thirteenth. Like Friday, a thirteenth that falls on a Monday becomes an instant holiday for jackalopes. Within the Inultaru communities,…