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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9303882" data-attributes="member: 7044704"><p>Either that or the Yule Cat has had kittens and you've got an invasive species problem starting up. I'd advise asking for some new clothing for the holidays just to be safe.</p><p></p><p>Deer skulls (and just shed antlers) are regular finds in American rural areas even today. I usually have to move at least one set of antlers off my lawn every spring before mowing, it's part of the spring cleanup ritual. When we had more coyotes around skeletal remains back in the scrub were common after a hard winter as well. </p><p></p><p>Move back in time 250-300 years when both they and their predators were far more common and you'd be seeing them all over the place. No surprise that myths grew up around other creatures having antlers to help explain where they were all coming from. The antlers are also easy to use when making chimerical fakes ala the jackalope. We've also got moose in some parts of the country, and their distinctive antlers are even more impressive and show up on some distinctively North American myths - see the <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pamola-mount-katahdin" target="_blank">Pamola</a> (especially the modernized depictions) for one example.</p><p></p><p>Europe had plenty of deer too, but higher human population density led to their populations being more controlled (and in some cases illegal for most folks to hunt outside of poaching) so tripping on their stray bones and antlers wasn't as common as in the US even after the Europeans arrived.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9303882, member: 7044704"] Either that or the Yule Cat has had kittens and you've got an invasive species problem starting up. I'd advise asking for some new clothing for the holidays just to be safe. Deer skulls (and just shed antlers) are regular finds in American rural areas even today. I usually have to move at least one set of antlers off my lawn every spring before mowing, it's part of the spring cleanup ritual. When we had more coyotes around skeletal remains back in the scrub were common after a hard winter as well. Move back in time 250-300 years when both they and their predators were far more common and you'd be seeing them all over the place. No surprise that myths grew up around other creatures having antlers to help explain where they were all coming from. The antlers are also easy to use when making chimerical fakes ala the jackalope. We've also got moose in some parts of the country, and their distinctive antlers are even more impressive and show up on some distinctively North American myths - see the [URL='https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pamola-mount-katahdin']Pamola[/URL] (especially the modernized depictions) for one example. Europe had plenty of deer too, but higher human population density led to their populations being more controlled (and in some cases illegal for most folks to hunt outside of poaching) so tripping on their stray bones and antlers wasn't as common as in the US even after the Europeans arrived. [/QUOTE]
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