Wild haggis
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Supposedly, the Wild Haggis is a creature which roams free through the Scottish Highlands. In actuality, it is merely a fictional animal spoken of to confuse the gullible. The story goes that during Haggis Season, Wild Haggis are hunted, and their meat served up as a local delicacy.
According to the legend, the haggis is a small four-legged Scottish Highland creature, which has the limbs on one side shorter than the other side. This means that it is well adapted to run around the hills at a steady altitude, without either ascending or descending. However a haggis can easily be caught by running around the hill in the opposite direction.
Such stories are not entirely confined to Scotland - for example, reports tell of a small Haggis population introduced to Nevada [1] (http://www.electricscotland.com/familytree/magazine/octnov2002/haggis.htm).
The notion of the Wild Haggis is extremely widely believed, though not always including the idea of mismatched legs. According to a survey released on 26 November 2003, one-third of US visitors to Scotland believed the haggis to be a real creature [2] (http://www.gcfg.com/press3.cfm?newsid=461).
See also
- fictional national animals
- haggis
- Sidehill Gouger
- Sidehill Dodge Hodag