Ponik
Also called Pohenegamook, Cheval Marin, Vache marine, Mantouche.
Ponik is the harmless lake monster of Lake Pohenegamook, Quebec — a forty-foot shape like an overturned canoe with an earless horse's head and a saw-toothed back.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Canadian folklore
- Trait family
- The Camera-Shy
Near this figure
Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Sight and sound
- Undulating humps break water surface
why
The composite description the sightings yield is distinctive: a dark creature up to forty feet long, most often likened to a long overturned canoe crossing the lake with a wake behind it — the parish priest's phrase from a 1957 sighting — with the head of a horse, cow, or dolphin, notably earless, a long neck, several humps, and a saw-toothed ridge down the back; circular tracks like a horse's are part of the shore lore, and some stories make the creature amphibious.