Mysterious Creatures : A Guide to Cryptozoology

Tsinquaw
FRESHWATER MONSTER of British Columbia,
Canada.
Physical description: Blackish-gray. Humps.
Distribution: Cowichan Lake, British Columbia.
Significant sightings: Something grabbed Abe
Johnston’s line as he was fishing in his rowboat
in October 1959 and pulled him around the
lake until the line snapped.
In 1995, Jaz Jazlowiecki and three others saw
a blackish-gray animal with two humps that
swam at about 5–10 miles an hour, creating a
wave.
Sources: Fort William (Ont.) Daily Times-
Journal, October 7, 1959; Nanaimo (B.C.) Free
Press, September 12, 1960; Mary Moon,
Ogopogo (Vancouver, Canada: J. J. Douglas,
1977), p. 152; John Kirk, In the Domain of
Lake Monsters (Toronto, Canada: Key Porter
Books, 1998), p. 6.
Tskhiss-Katsi
WILDMAN of West Asia.
Etymology: Georgian (Caucasian), “goat
man.”
Variant name: Tkhis-katsi.
Distribution: Caucasus Mountains, Georgia.
Sources: Odette Tchernine, The Yeti
(London: Neville Spearman, 1970), p. 180;
Bernard Heuvelmans and Boris F. Porshnev,
L’homme de Néanderthal est toujours vivant
(Paris: Plon, 1974), p. 171; Dmitri Bayanov,
In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman
(Moscow: Crypto-Logos, 1996), p. 24.
Tso’apittse
CANNIBAL GIANT of the western United States.
Etymology: Shoshoni (Uto-Aztecan), “cannibal
giant.”
Behavior: Call is a “whi, whi, whi, whi” and
“hudu.” Lives in a cave. Said to kill and eat people.
Carries a basket lined with pitch.
Distribution: California to Wyoming.
Sources: Kyle Mizokami, Bigfoot-Like
Figures in North American Folklore and
Tradition, http://www.rain.org/campinternet/
560 TSINQUAW
bigfoot/bigfoot-folklore.html; Tso’apittse,
http://www.bfro.net/legends/aztec.htm.
Tsulkalu
CANNIBAL GIANT of the southeastern United
States.
Etymology: From the Cherokee (Iroquoian)
Tsunil’ kalu’, “slant-eyed people.”
Physical description: Said to be twice as big as
humans.
Distribution: North Carolina; Georgia.
Significant sighting: Visited the Cherokee before
the eighteenth century from a western
region.
Source: James Mooney, “Myths of the
Cherokee,” Annual Report of the Bureau of
American Ethnology 19 (1900): 3–575.
Tsy-Aomby-Aomby
Mystery HOOFED MAMMAL of Madagascar.
Etymology: Malagasy (Austronesian), “not
cow cow”; perhaps from the Swahili (Bantu) si
n’gombe, “not cow.”
Variant names: Kilopilopitsofy (“floppy
ears”), Lalomena, MANGARSAHOC, Omby-rano
(“water cow,” in Mainarivo District), Railalomena
(“ancestor of the hippopotamus”), Songomby,
Tsomgomby.
Physical description: Looks like a water buffalo
without a hump; like a hippopotamus; or like a
cow, horse, or mule without horns or cloven
hooves. Size of a cow. Dark skin. Some accounts
give it a horn in the middle of its forehead. Pink
areas around the eyes and mouth. Huge, hanging
ears.
Behavior: Amphibious. Moves swiftly. Terrifying
cry or a series of deep, drawn-out grunts.
Eats everything from insects to humans. Stuns
people by spraying its urine on them.
Habitat: Rocky caves, swamps.
Distribution: South and southwestern Madagascar.
Significant sightings: In 1876, Josef-Peter Audebert
was shown an antelope-like animal hide
said to have come from the Tsy-aomby-aomby
in the south of the island.
A man named Constant and his wife and son