THE CONCORDANCE

wild man

2 records across 2 traditions carry this current.

Europe & the North · 1

BasajaunWildwood · Basque Country · SpainBasajaun, Lord of the Forest in Basque, is a great hairy woodland being who often guards flocks and once kept the secrets of sowing and smithing. A figure of living Basque culture, not a monster to be cleared from the hills.

South Asia · 1

YetiCryptid · Nepal · Tibet · HimalayaA wild-man and mountain being of Himalayan folklore — Tibetan mi rgod, Sherpa and Nepali yeti — encountered first as local religious and herding knowledge, not as a Western cryptozoological prize.