Yeren - Wikipedia
The yeren (Chinese: 野 人, 'wild man') is a cryptid apeman reported to inhabit remote, mountainous regions of China, most famously in the Shennongjia Forestry District in the Hubei Province.
Almas (folklore) - Wikipedia
In North Caucasian and Turkic folklore, an almas, alma or almasty, is a cryptid folk creature said to inhabit the Caucasus, Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains of Central Asia and the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia. [1][2] The term "almas" and numerous variants thereof appear in Mongolian, Turkic languages and Iranian languages. [3][4]
Zana of Tkhina - Wikipedia
Zana (Abkhaz: Зана, romanized: Zana) was a woman who lived in the second half of the 19th century in Abkhazia, South Caucasus. According to legend, she was an Almas ("forest woman") of great proportions entirely covered in hair, captured by hunters in the forests of Abkhazia in the mid-19th century.
Zana | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom
Zana was a female Almas that was captured and tamed by a small community in or near the village of Tkhina in the Ochamachiri District of Abkhazia in the 1880s or 1890s. How she was captured is vague. It is believed that some local hunters captured her in the 1880s, gagged her and bound her to a log.
Bigfoot and the Yeren, Joshua Blu Buhs and Sigrid Schmalzer
Joshua Blu Buhs’s Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend explores the real legacy of a mythical creature. Among the topics in The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China, author Sigrid Schmalzer delves into the meaning and resonance of the yeren, China's answer to the West's Bigfoot.
The UnMuseum - The Alma of Central Asia
In central Asia, in what, until a few years ago was the Soviet Union, there are stories of a large, ape-like creature that inhabits the mountains. It goes by the name of the Alma. Unlike the better known Bigfoot and Yeti, reports about the Alma say that the creature is much more of a rough, hairy human than an ape.
The genomic origin of Zana of Abkhazia - Wiley Online Library
2021年6月14日 · The local folklore of the South Caucasus region of Abkhazia records a “wild woman” named Zana, who lived in the 19th century, who was referred to by some locals as a female Abnauayu or Almasty: names for a creature similar to the infamous Yeti of the Himalayas and Bigfoot of North America, that supposedly lives in the Caucasus and Central ...
The Mysterious Almas: The Bigfoot of Central Asia
2023年3月24日 · Zana, a fabled wild woman, was believed to have resided in the remote T’khina mountain village in Abkhazia, Caucasus, located roughly fifty miles from Sukhumi.
Zana - Cryptids and Myths Wiki
Zana was a speculated Almas, a hairy apelike woman who was captured in 1850 and died in 1890. In 1850, a group of hunters were prowling the Ochamchir region of Georgia in Russia when they were astonished by the sight of a young female wild woman. She looked somewhat human, but also had many ape-like features.
Back to the Wild - The World of Chinese
Our cover story explores how nature educators and eco-friendly zoos are working to bring people back to the wild. Elsewhere in this issue, we maintain our commitment to presenting stories from female perspectives: listening to Chinese women speaking up about their discomfort with gynecological exams, and reviewing a short story collection by ...