Talk:Wampus cat

More wampus cat
The Wampus Cat is also mentioned in my History as a huge Tan bobcat with glowing green eyes and does not walk on two hind legs, instead he walks on all fours. he could tear your face off. in other versions, he has a huge black body and a gaint head with bright red eyes and a long black tail and will kill you if you go near the forest, which he roams. Both versions will hunt you down if you dare to go to the old tabcco barn. 12.177.211.131 14:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)Cedecat

Wampus and Wumpus
Is the Wumpus, of Hunt the Wumpus fame, a Wampus Cat? The names are spelled so similar one would think they are alternate spellings. 66.63.86.156 19:17, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

More than Just Tennesee
I read a "Weird Virginia" book and it had both The Wampus Cat and Bigfoot in there. Should we add that there have been sightings of them in Virginia(my native state) on their respective articles? Homestaw Wunner (talk) 20:51, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Citations Needed
in regards to its locations, a citation needs to be done for the sources on the page. I can't find anything other than wikipedia that mentioned the government conspiracy angle. Which usually means its someone's imagination and not real information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.187.95.157 (talk) 08:50, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Different Versions of the Wampus Cat
I hope that others editing the "Wampus Cat" Wiki will allow other versions to be included. Any edits I make adding to our own Wampus Cat keep getting deleted.

If you don't want a separate quote dealing with ours, at least merge it all together. I am on the board of our local historical society and I get people asking me now and again that read this Wiki why ours isn't here.

Our version is 75 years old and not at all like the 6-legged cat, or the Cherokee legend. It is a large mountain lion with a spiked ball on its tail derived from local Indian Legends (Kalispell, Pend Oreille, etc...)

Thanks.

Conrad (talk) 04:28, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Wampus Cat (copied from User talk:ClovisPt)
While I agree with you that the Wampus Cat page should be clean, I disagree with you that only one version of the "American Folklore" relating to the Wampus Cat should be shown.

It just seems to me that by limiting the article to what it is now, it is not a true representation of the Wampus Cat, which I thought is what wikipedia was for.

Using terms such as "often" and "variously" and "a number of" also seems too limiting. I've seen very well done wikipedia pages that actually tell what the subject is about. This page is now overly vague.

Can we at least have Stubs going to the different uses of the Wampus Cat term? Why limit it to a small blurb?

Thank you for your time.

Conrad (talk) 17:55, 12 May 2010 (UTC) Conrad Vogel Clark Fork Wampus Cat alumni
 * Hi Conrad. As I see it, the Wampus Cat article should be about the creature from American folklore. It shouldn't be about a given high school's mascot, or the story surrounding that, since, to me, the topic of a specific school's mascot isn't really notable enough to warrant an article here on Wikipedia, whereas an obscure item of national or regional folklore might deserve a small article.  Of course, I could be wrong.  I hope you don't mind if I copy this discussion onto the article's discussion page, and see if other editors respond. Regards, ClovisPt (talk) 18:03, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

I respectfully disagree with your thought that the Wampus Cat should ONLY be about the creature from one person's version of American Folklore, with no surrounding uses or stories. Not only our school, but I'm sure the others, are very proud of the history and folklore relating to the Wampus Cat. I still don't understand why subpages cannot be created relating to the school mascots. Given the uniqueness of the Wampus Cat, I still think it deserves more on Wikipedia. Even the "horned Frog" has a wiki page listing it as a mascot. Does this mean that this will set a precedence to require all similar pages to be edited?

Again, i do thank you for taking the time to listen to my arguements! Conrad (talk) 16:49, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I see no reason not to include a section here about school mascots, if they can be documented with references, and especially if school pages exist [on wikipedia], and are wiki-linking their mascots to here! If there's "too much" mascot related content that isn't the mythology, a subarticle Wampus cat (mascot) could be made for that content? Tom Ruen (talk) 23:00, 27 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks Tom, I like the idea of a subarticle for each specific type. Conrad (talk) 23:19, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Edited Version of the Wiki Page
Looks like not a lot of discussion of the new version of the page. Any way that we can expand it in some way to make everyone happy? As it is now, if you are not going to include much on the school mascot, we might as well do away with the six-legged Wampus Cat pic currently on the page.

Conrad (talk) 22:09 October,23 2012(UTC) I think that there should be a link leading to more on the wampus,but the link wold still be on wikipedia.

External links modified
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Cherokee Myth Sources
There don't seem to be any good sources backing up the claim that the Wampus originated as a Cherokee myth. Reference [3] links to an article that does not mention this at all, and reference [10] is a broken link to a book... the same book that was being discussed in reference [3], which isn't written about Cherokee or even Native American culture more broadly, and thus is likely to be inaccurate. I think this claim should be removed until it can be backed up with more evidence. 71.92.94.31 (talk) 22:46, 6 June 2024 (UTC)


 * I agree. I've removed the claims. Woodroar (talk) 03:10, 7 June 2024 (UTC)