Sup KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Here's a folkloric exploration of various "pig man" legends. From medieval lore to modern day cryptid encounters, we jump in the pigpen to get down and dirty with this particularly weird modern day legend with roots that stretch way, WAY back. PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

* Claude Lecouteux - "Phantom Armies of the Night"

* Jacqueline Simpson & Steve Roud - "A Dictionary of English Folklore"

* Katharine Briggs - "An Encyclopedia of Fairies"

* Marina Warner - "From the Beast to the Blonde"

* Jan Bondeson - "A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities"

* Robert Chambers - "Book of Days"

* The Mabinogion - Twrch Trwyth and enchanted boar mythology

* Sabine Baring-Gould - "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages"

* Bengt af Klintberg - "The Vanishing Hitchhiker"

* Linda Dégh - "Legend and Belief

* David J. Skal - "The Monster Show"

* Jeffrey Jerome Cohen - "Monster Theory: Reading Culture"

* Regional “Pigman Road” folklore from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Vermont.

* Angola Pigman - paranormal-strange.fandom.com

* https://www.newyorkhauntedhouses.com/real-haunt/pigman-road.html

* https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Pig-Man_of_Cannock_Chase

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/f5off7/cannock_chase_england_hauntingcreature/

* Pig-man of Cannock Chase? It’s the army telling porkies! - www.birminghammail.co.uk

* Terrifying seven foot 'pigman' spotted roaming notorious bigfoot hotspot - www.dailystar.co.uk

* Cabeza de chancho | Cryptid Wiki - cryptidz.fandom.com

* r/Cryptozoology on Reddit: What is a Chilean Cryptids?

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