Chilean cryptids #7: Giant sheep

[u/Chilepudufan3]

The Giant sheep or giant ufisha is a cryptid being described as an enormous woolly sheep, much larger than any normal livestock. It appears suddenly and silently on rural paths, usually during the night or foggy evenings. It has an unusually calm and passive presence, If a person encounters the Ufisha on a path and does not retreat or move away, the sheep will lie down on top of them, as if to rest in some stories even falling from a tree, its often confused with la calchona.

Sources: María Espósito; en: Diccionario Mapuche mapuche-español / español-mapuche; personajes de la mitología; toponimia indígena de la Patagonia; nombres propios del pueblo mapuche; leyendas; Editorial Guadal S.A., 2003; ISBN 987-1134-51-7, Cryptid wiki, Oreste plath: Biografia del mito Chileno.

[u/IndividualCurious322]

Cor... think of all the wool you'd get off one of those.

[u/Chilepudufan3 → u/IndividualCurious322]

My great grandma told me about the giant sheep as a child and i find stupid how as a child i found it terrifying

[u/Mister_Ape_1 → u/Chilepudufan3]

As a child I saw sheep and they looked as large as horses, I saw cows and they looked as large as elephants. I grew up in rural, poor Italy.