MEN WITH TAILS

In days gone by, even as late as the Tudor era, it was held in parts of Europe that Englishmen had tails.

In ancient times, Pliny had said there were tailed men in Sri Lanka.

A tailed man was supposedly encountered by a Dutch traveler named Struys in Taiwan.  Though awaiting execution, this individual told Struys that all people on the southern part of the island had tails.

A tailed race called the Niam-niams was supposed to exist in Africa.

The Reverend A.R. Wright in the early 1900s heard an Indian  legend in Alaska that there had once been a race of tailed men.  These had apparently been extirpated by the Indians, who stopped up the mouth of the cave where they lived with burning brands and brushwood. A legend of this type seems to crop up in a number of unrelated places.

The Orang Ekor of Malaysia are a legendary race of tailed men.  There have also been reports of tailed men in the Philippines, Borneo, the Nicobar Islands and in Kali, off the island of New Britain (Papua-New Guinea).