Lake monster long necked
An archetype. All kinds.
7 figures
Filed here because: Eyewitness descriptions of Champ are fairly consistent across the tradition: a large, dark-colored animal with a long neck, a small head, and a serpentine or humped body that breaks the surface in one or more arcs before submerging.
Filed here because: The composite description the sightings yield is distinctive: a dark creature up to forty feet long, most often likened to a long overturned canoe crossing the lake with a wake behind it — the parish priest's phrase from a 1957 sighting — with the head of a horse, cow, or dolphin, notably earless, a long neck, several humps, and a saw-toothed ridge down the back; circular tracks like a horse's are part of the shore lore, and some stories make the creature amphibious.