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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Mar 09, 2026

On this day in history March 9th, in the year 1935, Wisconsinite heroes fought a valiant duel for the rights of Wisconsin cheese, and in doing so brought civilization and culture to Iowa! This is the story of the Great Limburger Duel of Dubuque!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYKYEIEEAI

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Mar 06, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The American Tyger.

This is something of a two-for, covering the large cats separately reported by the explorers John Carver and Fr. Jacques Marquette.

Carver reported seeing a large "tyger of America" on an island on the Chippewa river, which he said was of a tawny color, had tasseled ears like a bobcat, and was a bit smaller then the tigers of Asia.

Marquette similarly reported a "tiger-headed" monster in the Mississippi River, which likewise was described with tasseled ears.

Marquette's tiger is also often confused in how it is described by folklorists and cryptozoology types (who I think are working off of bad translations of his account). Marquette told of three separate things:

1. Native Americans told him about a man-eating demon that lived in the Mississippi.

2. He saw a tiger-headed creature swimming in the Mississippi.

3. While on the Mississippi he encountered large fish which collided with his canoe.

Rather frequently, folklorists will combine these three separate things into one and will say something like Marquette encountered a "giant tiger-headed fish that Natives said was a man-eating demon."

But in reality, these were three separate events.

There haven't been any sightings of wild tigers in Wisconsin apart from these two explorers, but that hasn't stopped some cryptid-enjoyers from speculating that there must be a hidden species of tiger lurking somewhere on Wisconsin's waterways.

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Mar 05, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Windigo Dog.

Under the traditional lore for the windigo, it wasn't only humans which could contract the windigo curse. There were legends which stated that snowmen could become cursed and become real windigos (and so some groups had taboos against building snowmen) but there were also some legends that animals could become windigos as well.

Within Wisconsin legend, the only animals I could find becoming windigos were specifically all dogs. These windigo dogs served as hunting hounds for the regular type of windigo, and had the same rotting, emaciated appearance as their masters.

They were also incredibly hard to kill with conventional means, with one legend reporting that a windigo dog took many bullets to the head before going down.

The windigo dogs seem to have all the weaknesses of the typical windigo... including the windigo's weakness to regular dogs. Thus there are some stories where a hero's own dog will fight and kill the windigo dogs while the hero takes on the windigo itself.

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Mar 04, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Gloflikop.

It's one of Wisconsin's goofier lumberjack legends, and supposedly a legend with Native American roots (probably made up by a Native lumberjack or else just falsely attributed to Natives).

The gloflikops were giant police officer fireflies. They worked for the Great Spirit, and were sent out to patrol the forests at night, to keep watch on the nocturnal animals, and made sure none of them got up to trouble.

So, essentially, a race of divinely-ordained bioluminescent insectoid Judge Dredds, ensuring law and order in the Northwoods.

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I am a tritschologist, a takwinist, and a tyromancer. Also the unironic world expert on Wisconsin gnome legends, and a software dev as a side gig. If you wish to learn the gnomelore of Wisconsin, check out my website: https://krandlemas.wixsite.com/krandlekeep

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Mar 03, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Fire Specter.

Previously I've covered entities connected to the Great Peshtigo Fire, and this entity is similar, but connected to a different series of fires that occurred in the area of Black River Falls in 1977: the Saratoga Fire, the Brockway Fire, and the Airport Fires.

Not only was the fire specter thought to be responsible for those series of fires, but is believed to haunt the area causing other minor fires, and stealing souls. It is said to manifest as either St. Elmo's fire or as a fiery blue humanoid.

It can also manifest as a face inside of a campfire, where it will attempt to hypnotize a person, causing them to immolate themselves within the campfire, allowing the fire specter to claim their soul.

There are a bunch of competing origin stories for the specter. Some say it was summoned to the region by witches and wizards who immigrated from Germany and has haunted the land ever since.

Some say the specter is an errand boy for the Devil himself, and that a portal to hell exists somewhere in an abandoned mine in the area.

A third legend states that it was created from a curse when a medicine man was killed while praying upon Bell Mound (he was ironically slain by other Native Americans, who assumed he was a white man desecrating the mound in some way).

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I am a tritschologist, a takwinist, and a tyromancer. Also the unironic world expert on Wisconsin gnome legends, and a software dev as a side gig. If you wish to learn the gnomelore of Wisconsin, check out my website: https://krandlemas.wixsite.com/krandlekeep

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Mar 02, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Burlington Vortex Tulpoids.

Today we have the "tulpoid creatures" found in the area of the Burlington Vortex. I've... kinda been putting off posting a lot of the entities connected to the "Burlington Vortex" just because the Vortex is a crazy deep rabbit hole with a bunch of attached lore to it.

The quickest version I can give you here, is that the Burlington Vortex is an area near Burlington, Wisconsin, where it is relatively common for strange things to happen when you take photographs. Weird distortions, "elfin currents," and strange entities seem to appear on the photos you take there.

A lot of this has been catalogued by a paranormal researcher named Mary Sutherland, who has reported a whole host of paranormal entities showing up on photo in the Burlington area, each with their associated lore. A lot of her work is documented on her website, https://www.burlingtonnews.net/ (but we warned you are about to enter a ridiculously deep rabbit hole obfuscated by 90's web design aesthetics)

The entity for today is the "tulpoid," which according to the Burlington Vortex lore, is an entity born of pure thought that can sometimes be caught on camera in the area of the Vortex. This specific tulpoid design on this image was from a "scorpion tulpoid" that appeared in one of Mary Sutherland's photos.

There's... a lot more entities connected to the Vortex, though. Fairies, elves, djinn, giants, gray aliens, bigfoots, nymphs, sylphs... it's kind of a everything-but-the-kitchen-sink area in terms of legendary creatures. I'll get around to posting them all in time.

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I am a tritschologist, a takwinist, and a tyromancer. Also the unironic world expert on Wisconsin gnome legends, and a software dev as a side gig. If you wish to learn the gnomelore of Wisconsin, check out my website: https://krandlemas.wixsite.com/krandlekeep

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Feb 25, 2026

Throwing together a little project to be released March 9th, to celebrate the anniversary of one of Wisconsin's greatest cultural victories.

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Feb 23, 2026

Ever since I started really diving into State and local history, I've been noticing a lot of crap like this: People performatively want to look like they care about Native Americans, and so they'll post a sign or try to say something about Native American history... without putting in any effort of actually learning the history in question.

They don't actually care, they just want to LOOK like they care about Native American history.

Case in point here, this sign is something I saw in a hotel in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, claiming that the "first inhabitants of the land now known as Oak Creek" were the Potawatomi, followed by a list of basic facts about the Potawatomi that you'd probably be able to find in the first paragraph of their Wikipedia article.

But here's the thing: The main claim on this sign is just wrong.

As far as we can tell, the Ho-Chunk were the first people to live in this area. (There perhaps was someone there even earlier, but the Ho-Chunk are really the earliest that history can confirm.)

The Potawatomi came to Wisconsin itself relatively recently. Originally from what is now southern Michigan, they fled West into Wisconsin when the Iroquois tried to genocide them. They arrived in what is now Door County sometime before the French arrived in Wisconsin, and gradually began moving south along the eastern shores of Wisconsin, coming to what is now Oak Creek before that land was then purchased from them by Yankee colonists.

The Ho-Chunk didn't really like the fact the Potawatomi were occupying their land, but following the Battle of Death's Door (in which a windstorm capsized Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi war canoes and killed many warriors on both sides) they didn't really have the manpower and strength to drive the Potawatomi out.

But because the land was purchased from the Potawatomi, these people who want to appear as if they are knowledgeable in Native American history just assume that they must have always lived here, and that this is like their ancestral homeland spanning back to the dawn of time.

And so stuff like this ends up on signage, spreading misinfo about the history of the land, and obfuscating the actual history.

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Feb 06, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Double Face.

The double face, or hestovatohkeo'o, was a large, hairy, ogre-like creature found in the folklore of the Dakota Sioux. It belonged to the "man eating giant" archetype found in the folklore of other Native American groups in the area, but was frankly the most bizarre and unique of that group.

The creature had a second face on the back of its head, and it would attempt to get you to look at that face. If you did, you would become paralyzed, and the double face would then stab you to death with his sharp elbows.

Even if you didn't look at its secondary face, the creature might unfurl one of its massive ears which it would use to catch you like a net. Each ear could hold up to three men, and the earwax was acidic, and so anyone caught in the double face's ear would be digested.

Overall, it's a gloriously weird legend.

Exactly the kind of weirdness that makes me love folklore so much.

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I am a tritschologist, a takwinist, and a tyromancer. Also the unironic world expert on Wisconsin gnome legends, and a software dev as a side gig. If you wish to learn the gnomelore of Wisconsin, check out my website: https://krandlemas.wixsite.com/krandlekeep

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Feb 03, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Weary Road Imps

This is an obscure one, and is just one of many supernatural phenomenon attached to Weary Road in Evansville. In addition to the ghost of old man Weary, the black shucks, and ghost lights seen along the road, there are reports of tiny demon-like imps flying in and out among the trees.

There also aren't really any physical descriptions of what these imps look like and so, since I was given artistic license here... this is also technically Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall fanart. Just because Daggerfall was peak.

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Feb 02, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Dwendi

Realized I hadn't updated this one yet, which is a bit crazy since it's one of the illustrations that I like the most!

The dwendi are one of Wisconsin's more modern gnome legends, taking the appearance of tiny men with pointed ears and hand-stitched, earth-tone clothing. They have been reported both in the Kettle Moraine in the southeast as well as up north near Eagle River.

They are known for strange ritualistic behavior, including arranging stones in odd patterns, and dancing around small campfires while waving sticks.

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Jan 28, 2026

I think it's because I'm from a programming background, but now that I've been paying more attention to online art communities I find a lot of the attitudes within online artist circles to be obnoxious. Like I just want to share my art with people. But a lot of other artists are, like, psychotically controlling over even really low-effort stuff. People will absolutely ruin their art going over-the-board with watermarks trying to make sure that no one can steal an image no one ever would want to steal in the first place. Meanwhile in the programming community, releasing your work so that other people can use it is just, like, a common practice. There's a mentality of "Sure, take my work and build on to it! That's what it's there for brother!" Meanwhile in artist spaces people will be like "You clearly copied this character's pose from my work, you've STOLEN from me!" Just completely different mindsets between the two.

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Jan 23, 2026

"Pinky the Ninja Mosasaurus", made an image based on a character my three-year-old daughter came up with. Originally she was holding the ninja sword with her flipper, but my daughter said "No that's not right" and explained that obviously the sword should be protruding from the ninja-mosasaurus' back. Also initially asked me to make her blue. Then had me change to red. Then purple. But now, finally, the image is perfect. Following the whims of a three-year-old's OC design has been fun!

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Jan 22, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: Ghost Carriages

Not much to write as way of description on this one: There's been plenty of sightings of ghostly horse-drawn carriages throughout Wisconsin's history. Unsurprisingly it was more common before the invention of the automobile, and in the modern era haunted cars or spectral motorcycles have sort of replaced the phenomenon.

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Jan 21, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Swamp Augur and ... the other Swamp Augur.

There are two creatures that go by the name "Swamp Augur" in Wisconsin lore, one being a type of fish, and the other a bird.

The Swamp Augur Bird is rather straightforward: A ducklike bird with a corkscrew bill which it uses to dig into the swampy earth looking for food.

The Swamp Augur Fish is a fish with a corkscrew horn which likes to drill through the bottom of boats. If this happened while you were in the boat, you were supposed to sprinkle cayenne pepper down the hole and onto the fish's snout.

This caused the Swamp Augur to violently sneeze. And the Swamp Augur, as something of a freak, actually enjoyed this. And so it would plug the hole with its nose so that you could sprinkle more cayenne pepper on it. As long as you kept indulging in this fish's weird pleasure, it would keep the hole in your boat plugged with its snout long enough for you to get to shore.

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Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Magic Horse and the Magic Ox. These are two legends that I find rather neat, as they were recorded as legends among Wisconsin's Ojibwe,

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Jan 20, 2026

Ah crap, just realized that the ox picture has the wrong horn producing the feast... Thankfully just need to flip the image and it's good... XD

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Jan 20, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Magic Horse and the Magic Ox.

These are two legends that I find rather neat, as they were recorded as legends among Wisconsin's Ojibwe, but have clear European influences, and are likely adaptations of legends that the Ojibwe got from the French.

Both the horse and the ox are actually princes who have been cursed (by either a witch or the devil himself), both have a host of magical powers which they use to aid a heroic warrior on a quest. In return for the gifts they offer the hero, they eventually request that the hero decapitate them, which breaks the curse and turns the horse/ox back into a prince.

In essence, they were sort of mythical fusions between the Native American concept of animal spirits and the European concept of a cursed prince.

The horse was capable of disguising itself, of turning a handful of flowers into a garden, and of making a magic sword and armor which a person could use to singlehandedly defeat armies.

The ox had two detachable, magical horns. The left horn could produce a massive feast, and the right horn contained a warhorse and a magical suit of armor. The ox also had the ability to prevent a windigo from reattaching its severed heads, thereby allowing the hero he was helping to permanently slay a windigo to complete his quest.

I really like legends like this where the legends of two very different cultures blend together into something unique.

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Jan 09, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Lake Delavan Serpent.

Most of Wisconsin's Lake Serpents are pretty much just your standard sea serpent. The Lake Delavan serpent, however, is... different.

It's head was described as somewhat leonine, and completely toothless. It had golden scales that retracted telescopically. Between its glowing green eyes was a strange protuberance, which produced a “dreadful humming sound.”

The serpent had a habit of attacking small boats. It would loop its body around the boat, taking its tail in its mouth like an ouroboros, and then would tighten its body until the boat was crushed.

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I am a tritschologist, a takwinist, and a tyromancer. Also the unironic world expert on Wisconsin gnome legends, and a software dev as a side gig. If you wish to learn the gnomelore of Wisconsin, check out my website: https://krandlemas.wixsite.com/krandlekeep

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BanditoWalrus

@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club

I am a tritschologist, a takwinist, and a tyromancer. Also the unironic world expert on Wisconsin gnome legends, and a software dev as a side gig. If you wish to learn the gnomelore of Wisconsin, check out my website: https://krandlemas.wixsite.com/krandlekeep

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Jan 08, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Lake Michigan Lizard-Fish.

This is a strange one, as it is an animal which was reportedly captured in Lake Michigan and observed in captivity in 1902, but we have no modern evidence of the creature outside of those early 20th-century reports of the people who saw it.

It had an eel-like tail, lizard-like limbs, and a fish-like body, and was gray and spotted. It had no eyes, but had ears which grew larger when the animal became agitated.

Most curiously, when other fish were placed into the same tank as the lizard-fish, the lizard-fish would emit poisonous "pills" which would kill and even dissolve the other fish.

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BanditoWalrus

@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club

I am a tritschologist, a takwinist, and a tyromancer. Also the unironic world expert on Wisconsin gnome legends, and a software dev as a side gig. If you wish to learn the gnomelore of Wisconsin, check out my website: https://krandlemas.wixsite.com/krandlekeep

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BanditoWalrus

@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club

I am a tritschologist, a takwinist, and a tyromancer. Also the unironic world expert on Wisconsin gnome legends, and a software dev as a side gig. If you wish to learn the gnomelore of Wisconsin, check out my website: https://krandlemas.wixsite.com/krandlekeep

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Jan 07, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: Let's keep the lake monster theme this week with the Fowler Lake Monster.

The Fowler Lake Monster is a fairly obscure one that was spotted throughout the 19th century (but which really hasn't been spotted since).

Witness accounts of it are wildly inconsistent, describing it as either a giant otter, a giant beaver, or a giant fish... and so my depiction splits the difference.

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BanditoWalrus

@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club

I am a tritschologist, a takwinist, and a tyromancer. Also the unironic world expert on Wisconsin gnome legends, and a software dev as a side gig. If you wish to learn the gnomelore of Wisconsin, check out my website: https://krandlemas.wixsite.com/krandlekeep

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BanditoWalrus

@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club

I am a tritschologist, a takwinist, and a tyromancer. Also the unironic world expert on Wisconsin gnome legends, and a software dev as a side gig. If you wish to learn the gnomelore of Wisconsin, check out my website: https://krandlemas.wixsite.com/krandlekeep

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@BanditoWalrus@cawfee.club · Jan 05, 2026

Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: Long Lake's Monsters.

Long Lake is a pretty diverse lake when it comes to the number of monsters that supposedly dwell within it (not that much when you compare it to Devil's Lake, of course, but notable apart from that anomaly).

First and foremost, there have been sightings of your standard sea monsters in the lake.

Secondly, there is a rather unique sighting of a large, black, swan-like lake monster with a dragon-like head, which also is said to dwell somewhere underwater in the lake.

Finally, there was a sighting of a giant salamander on a road nearby a lake, which has been theorized as being a "baby monster" or an infant form of one of the other lake monsters.

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