Rubberados, also known as bouncing porcupines, are fearsome critters spoken of in tall tales from North America during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Description[]
The Rubberado was a creature resembling a porcupine whose spines and flesh were extremely rubbery. It used this ability to bounce across the land. Every time a Rubberado bounced, it laughed. Once the Rubberado was cooked, its flesh made a tasty stew, but eating it would cause you to bounce & laugh too. Bullets would bounce off it because of how rubbery it was.
In Popular Culture[]
- Rubberados are featured in the popular trading card game MetaZoo: Cryptid Nation.
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Further reading[]
- "Rubberado" from Lenwood's Lexicon of Lumberwoods Lore
- Ives, Ronald L. (1938, April 2). “You Don’t Have To Believe It.” Science News Letter, Vol. 33, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3915188?mag=a-belief-in-ghosts-poetry-and-the-shared-imagination&seq=1