In American folklore, the hugag is a fearsome critter similar to a moose with an extensive upper lip, preventing it from grazing, and jointless legs preventing it from lying down.
Fearsome creature
In this case, it sounds more like the creature itself is the one full of fear as it cannot eat or lie down.
I expected this thing to be some kind of folkloric metaphor for something but apparently it’s more likely some bored guys were like “wouldn’t it be weird if a moose-like creature existed that couldn’t lay down or eat grass??”
Arose from people misinterpreting unguligrade/digitigrade animals as having no knees, then people pointed out they do, so some guy was like but what if they didn’t?? Dunno where the lips came from, maybe just a parallel of not being able to eat normally to go along with not being able to walk normally
being an American I was low key worried the lip thing was something racist
Poor moosie
I would very much so love to know what Wikipedia rabbit hole led you to the Hugag?
According to my history:
Depths of Wikipedia > Cow Tipping > Achlis > Hugag
Depths of Wikipedia‽
