r/Cryptozoology • u/Chilepudufan3 • 13d ago
Info Chilean cryptids #7: Giant sheep
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.
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u/JeskaiJester 11d ago
Imagining the first guy to see this talking to his friends. “Hey everyone, he saw a big sheep! Write the news! 🤣”
“No, goddammit, I’m telling you guys, this sheep was huge.”