Hodag Redux

I was just checking out the Museum of Hoaxes website, taking a look through their photo gallery, and came across this photo of a hodag!


The caption reads:

This picture, and ones like it, appeared on many Wisconsin postcards during the first decades of the 20th century. It shows a creature called the Hodag cornered by men with pitchforks. The Hodag is a supernatural beast native to Wisconsin. It has the head of a bull, the back of a dinosaur, and the leering features of a giant man. Its legs are short, its claws are long, and its tail is spear-tipped.

Gee, and I thought Chris Monroe was at least partly making it up!