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I recently saw a post arguing that it’s bad to refer to creatures from Native American mythology as cryptids, because cryptids don’t really exist and the creatures in Native American mythology do really exist. I just want to say that this has the same energy as “don’t call Christian stories mythology, because mythology is wrong and Christianity is right.”

(I also have to wonder if every Native American tribe has the special being-right-about-monsters power, or only some of them. And are Appalachians sufficiently acclimatized by now that they’ve developed the power, and all their monsters are real?)