At the beginning of the 21st Century monsters still roam the remote, and sometimes not so remote, corners of our planet. It is our job to search for them. The Centre for Fortean Zoology [CFZ] is - we believe - the largest professional, scientific and full-time organisation in the world dedicated to cryptozoology - the study of unknown animals. Since 1992 the CFZ has carried out an unparalleled programme of research and investigation all over the world. Since 2009 we have been running the increasingly popular CFZ Blog Network, and although there has been an American branch of the CFZ for over ten years now, it is only now that it has a dedicated blog.
XUDELE - NATIVE AMERICAN DOGMAN
Since Linda Godfrey's pioneering book on the subject, Dogmen, men with doglike heads, have become a focus of interest for cryptozoologists. This led me to wonder if there were any Native American traditions of this creature.
The only one I could find was the Xudele, which seems to have been an individual rather than a species, but may have resulted from a contact with a single dogman. The Xudele was believed in by the Tsetsaut Indians of British Columbia. This nation is now extinct. It was said to wield an ax and to eat humans.
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