Axehandle hound

The animal resembles a dog with a body axe-like in shape. It has a head shaped like an axe blade, hence the name, complemented by a handle-shaped body atop short stubby legs. It subsists on a diet consisting entirely of the handles of axes which have been left unattended.{{cite book|url=http://www.borges.pitt.edu/vakalo/zf/html/fauna_of_the_united_states.html|author=Borges, Jorge Luis|title=Book of Imaginary Beings|location=New York|publisher=Viking Press|year=2005|ISBN=0-670-89180-0|page=83}} A nocturnal creature,{{cite book |last=Tryon |first=Henry Harrington |title=Fearsome Critters |publisher=Idlewild Press |year=1939 |place=Cornwall, NY |pages=5}} the axehandle hound travels from camp to camp searching for its next meal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1126|title=Paul Bunyan natural history: describing the wild animals, birds, reptiles and fish of the big woods about Paul Bunyan's old time logging camps | Turning Points in Wisconsin History | Wisconsin Historical Society|website=www.wisconsinhistory.org}} According to folklore, the axehandle hound strongly dislikes axe handles made from red oak.

• Fearsome critters
• Folklore of the United States

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• Baughman, Ernest Warren - Type and Motif-index of the Folktales of England and North America, Mouton 1966, page 533.
• Botkin, B. A. - The American People: Stories, Legends, Tales, Traditions and Songs, Transaction Publishers, {{ISBN|1-56000-984-5}}, page 250.
• Botkin, B. A. - The Pocket Treasury of American Folklore, Pocket Books 1950
• Rose, Carol - Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth, W. W. Norton & Company, {{ISBN|0-393-32211-4}}, page 32, 119.

• [http://digilander.libero.it/ilcrepuscolodeglidei/creature/a/axehandle.htm Description] (in Italian)

Category:Fearsome critters

Category:Legendary dogs

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