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Oh my god, I just looked on whether she has an entry on the Wolpertinger and according to this Wolpertinger, Elwedritsche and Jackalopes are the same thing when they are Bavarian, Palatian and American. And Wolpertinger have no fixed shape as she claims here!!!! They are made-up chimerical folklore creatures. I am out!!! This book is not worth my time.

What? The Chupacabra first sighted in 1540? Is she serious? BS!!!!! That stuff started in the 1990s in Puerto Rico and not in Mexico.

It is spelled Böxenwolf or maybe Büxenwolf but not Buxenwolf, sure a Buxe is an lower german word for trousers but the spelling here is wrong. Also what she describes is basically a werewolf and while a Böxenwolf can be a werewolf, in many other cases it is just a wolf in trousers and is only a spook for children. But no wonder as her source is a book on vampires.

Wow, that entry on the Beast of Gevaudan is really bad. I get the impression that the author just copied other half-assed books on the topic.

The Aufhocker is a black, vampiric dog that can shapeshift? No it isn't. Aufhocker is more of a category for several creatures which can be dwarves, goblins, ghosts, cattle, dogs etc. And calling it vampiric… that is a stretch. I will check this out further and see what it says about other german folklore creatures.

The only german source given for the entry on the Alp is the book Teutonic mythology by the Grimms, so I take this with a grain of salt. Considered that I am searching this for creatures from german mythology, this first entry is not very assuring to me. In fact, I doubt there will be much german folklore in here.

Alps always wear white hats? This is the first time I ever heard of that. Plus, several of the names given are also carried by other creatures in german folklore.

What on earth? Ababil are from the Quran and the entry even states that they dropped some stuff upon the army sent by the king of Yemen to attack Mecca but the entry claims them to be from Korean folklore. Did she confuse Korean with Quran?