Samuel Peterson’s Reviews > The Little Encyclopedia of Enchanted Woodland Creatures: An A-to-Z Guide to Mythical Beings of the Forest > Status Update

Are you...serious? ALMOST THE ENTIRETY OF THE WORKS CITED PAGE IS COMPOSED OF WIKI LINKS! WTAF?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!? Instant 1 star.

So, the author believes in Bigfoot and thinks it could be a whole species? Well, that makes two of us, but I'm of the opinion that it could be an evolved Homo erectus that has spread through Asia, Australia, North America, and South America. How else do you account for the long history of human-like creatures living in the forest but exhibiting signs of human-like intelligence?

Seriously? Yggdrasil is the final entry? I'm sure if you look hard enough, there are creatures in folklore who live in forests with Y and Z.

So, the author looked up the origin of the word "Yggdrasil" but not "troll"? Lazy.

Really? Werewolves barely get an entry? Come on!

This wakwak tree sounds similar to an idea I had in my homebrew DnD world.

"The folklore of the Cherokee Nation features another woman who metamorphosed into the Wampus Cat after she spied on a sacred ritual by hiding under a mountain lion's pelt. As a result, she forever lives deep in densely wooded areas, possessing a bone-chilling scream that strikes fear into the hearts of anyone who hears it." I mean, that's just the usual sounds a mountain lion makes.

I've seen the wampus cat in DnD 3rd party material, but I did not know it came from Native American tribal folklore.

Interesting. I did not know that Turkish mythology had its own version of Yggdrasil called "Ulukayin."

I like how the entry for trolls indicates the gradual changes of how they are depicted and regaled in stories over time. It also shows that the writer did not do research into the word "troll," which comes from "trøll," which is Norse for magic or magician.