The Woodwose: Bigfoot’s European cousin

itotd.com ^ | April 18, 2007 | Morgen Jahnke

[Nikas777]

a portrait by Albrecht Dürer, 1499.

I am intrigued by the notion that the woodwose were actually the last remaining Neanderthals still alive during medieval Europe.

[dfwgator]

"A woodwose...how womantic!"

[happygrl]

I am intrigued by the notion that the woodwose were actually the last remaining Neanderthals still alive during medieval Europe.

There are some who believe the Almas of the Urals are Neaderthals, still alive in the 20th Century.

[JoeProBono]

[Nikas777]

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[dragonblustar]

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[Nikas777]

Yes. Also the woodwose were described as hairy like apes but clothed in a primitive manner and using simple primitive weapons like a club and very combative/territorial.

[willgolfforfood]

LOL!! That’s EXACTLY what I thought of, even before I read your post!

[Nikas777]

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[Scythian]

[ScottinVA]

LOL!!!!

[6SJ7]

Bwaaa!

[longfellow]

I think the monster in Beowolf was a bigfoot.

[Nikas777]

Really? Interesting. (Are you kidding or for real? - it is cool either way)

[Inyo-Mono]

Or a surviving Neanderthal.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Beowulf was set in Denmark and Southwestern Sweden. Grendel was not identified, but I’s say he was a troll, or started out as a troll. The poem was transmitted in West Saxon. I don’t know if there were trolls in the Saxon England bestiary. Not certain if the Norse troll swam and lived in caves under water, but apparently they could in the Anglo Saxon imagination.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Fred Nerks]

Dietrich im kampf mit dem Wilden Mann. Stutgart. 1470

Germany and Austria is filled with folktales of Wild Men, 'Wilder Mann' hotels and statues are everywhere, particularly in the Tyrol. In fact, growing up in Bavaria, I was convinced they still lived in the mountains there.

[SunkenCiv]

Grover Krantz suggested that the surviving hunter-gatherer groups in Europe didn’t finally die out / get assimilated until the Middle Ages, and to them attributes those wild man accounts. The Almasty is altogether different, sez Krantz (said, actually, cuz he’s now deceased) and was reported as recently as the 1940s.