Jawnomicon

Ashuaps

Also called Monster of Lac Saint-Jean.

A long dark shape reported from Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec, named for the river it was first seen in and known mainly from a run of sightings after 1950.

At a glance

Tradition
Canadian folklore
Region
Rivers and Lakes (unspecified) (place of origin)
Trait family
The Tempest-Bringers

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Traits

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Offensive powers

  • Ship capsizing
    why

    In 1978 a family from the Ouiatchouan reserve was thrown violently from a canoe, on the same day that the animal was reported twice more in the river that feeds the lake; one named account has Marcel Tardif and his wife watching a blackish animal off Scott Point.

Roles

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