Hodag "captured" by Shepard, 1896

The Hodag is a fictional animal of Wisconsin in the United States. Image File history File links The_hodag. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with List of species in folklore and mythology#National fictional species (folktales, talltales). ... Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Area  Ranked 23rd  - Total 65,498 sq mi (169,790 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 310 miles (500 km)  - % water 17  - Latitude 42° 30′ N to 47° 05′ N  - Longitude 86° 46′ W to 92° 53′ W Population  Ranked...

Legends of the Black Hodag were told earlier in the 19th century among the lumberjacks of the area. According to these, the hodag had risen from the ashes of an ox, in some legends it was Paul Bunyan's ox, Babe, which was burned for seven years to cleanse its soul of the profanity hurled at it by lumberjacks and its master. The soul of the ox emerged from the ashes exuding a foul odor. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lumberjacks in Oregon, c. ... Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ... Paul and Babe in Bemidji, Minnesota Paul Bunyan is a mythical lumberjack in tall tales. ... Look up Profanity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

News reports from the time of its discovery claimed the hodag had "the head of a frog, the grinning face of a giant elephant, thick short legs set off by huge claws, the back of a dinosaur, and a long tail without spears at the end".

The Hodag is a sort of unofficial symbol for the region surrounding Rhinelander. The city's official web site calls Rhinelander "The Home of the Hodag." The Hodag is the Rhinelander High School mascot, and lends its name and image to the Hodag Country Festival, an annual country music festival that is one of Rhinelander's largest community events. Rhinelander High School is a high school in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA, a small city located in Oneida County. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...

The beast has also been adopted as the mascot of the University of Wisconsin-Madison men's Ultimate team, which won its first national championship in 2003 ^[1][2], and its second national championship in 2007 ^[3]. The team's hodag logo adorns players' uniforms as well as hats, visors and headbands. More than a dozen alumni have hodag tattoos. The team finished second in the nation in 2006 and is regularly one of the top teams in the country. Ultimate (commonly called Ultimate Frisbee) is a non-contact competitive team sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. ...

Gene Shepard, the hodag's creator, was a huge prankster and was credited with its capture and many other pranks. He was said to have sold "PERFUMED MOSS" around wisconsin via the Rhinelander Woman's Club. It was then discovered that he bought giant barrels of cheap perfume which he dunked the moss into. ^{[citation needed]}

Hodags in popular culture

• Rhinelander, WI official site about the pursuit of the Hodag hodagsightings.com

• Rhinelander, WI hosts a couple of Hodags RoadsideAmerica.com

• A hodag is or was at the Mall of America's Amusement Park (formerly known as Camp Snoopy) ^[4]

• Hodag is part of the Monster in My Pocket series.

Monster in My Pocket was a toy line developed by Morrison Entertainment Group, headed by Joe Morrison and John Weems, and released by Matchbox in 1990 consisting of small, soft plastic monsters from religion and mythology, literary fantasy, and unexplained phenomena. ...

References

The Troop 13 Hodag site is at http://www.bsa13.com/hodag.

External links

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• Official website of The University of Wisconsin Men's Ultimate Team
• The (unofficial) HODAG Home Page
• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article from series on Wisconsin's sesquicentennial
• The Living Legends of Rhinelander's Hodag (details on the hoax and the historical occurrences)
• Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods (William T. Cox's Book)
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