tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post7340616473047482821..comments2024-01-05T05:02:20.353+00:00Comments on CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: INTRODUCING THE KHON-PAA, A TRANSPARENT APE-MAN FROM EARLY 19TH CENTURY THAILANDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-11768397664139937002010-11-20T12:18:25.414+00:002010-11-20T12:18:25.414+00:00When I was a kid there was a boogeyman story going...When I was a kid there was a boogeyman story going around about a supernatural Ogre called Crystalguts, and you could see his entrails right through his belly. I imagine the rumor stated out as a ghost story and became traditional.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16505569.post-64146284528877912842010-11-19T13:08:42.059+00:002010-11-19T13:08:42.059+00:00I have read about the "Seeing through the bel...I have read about the "Seeing through the belly into the entrails" in a book about ancient Chinese medicine, and it is Folkloric, it could not have been taken as literally true the other example I am writing about. So I think it must have some hidden meaning or obscure reference. The straight legs with no knees is DEFINITELY Folkloric and it is otherwise known from Europe to the Americas ("Stiff-legged Bear")<br /><br />On the other hand, the use of the term as a reference to a rude uncultured person from the back woods does sound as though the original meaning was to a standard Wildman type. Sometimes the popular stories people tell about Cryptids are something completely different from what the actual reports would be, and the actual reports are much more mundane.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com