A very poorly done Bait

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The strange and fraudulent Tizzie whizie

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   It was a supposed animal, named Tizzie-Whizie, that was supposedly first seen by a boatman from Bowness in the Lake District, around 1900.

Shy, water-loving creatures, Tizzie-Whizies They are reputed to have the body of a hedgehog, the tail of a squirrel or a fox and a pair of bee wings. They are shy and prefer to spend most of their lives in the water, They are excellent underwater swimmers.

From "A Boatman's Grandson": "This one was captured in 1906, fighting and screaming, he was rushed to Louis Herbert's photographic studio, opposite St. Martin's Church. After soothing him with some warm milk and bites of gingerbread cookies, took this immortal portrait of Tizzie Whizie, before she jumped from her table and flew out the window to regain her freedom."

The best way to encounter a tizzie-whizie is to crouch next to the water and listen carefully as they have a very weak cry, which could only be heard if you had your ears at water level. Many thousands of postcards were sold from this photograph. Boatmen used to hunt for Tizzie Whizie and the elusive Tizzie Whizie it invariably ended up under one of the docks and one of the tourists involved in the hunt was 'accidentally' pushed into the lake.

Sometimes the boatmen said that he had escaped to Belle Isle, and that if any of the hunt's followers wanted him, They could cross the lake to look for it. When asked why they couldn't watch him fly across the lake, the answer was "because he was a very good underwater swimmer", Among other things, it was also said that they loved milk and gingerbread cookies.

Most agree that tizzie-whizie is nothing more than a cheap trick, knowing that the boatman who first discovered it made it up in a publication and convinced the group of tourists to accompany him on a tour the next day, when he would show them the tizzie-whizie, although from here he notices that it is a fraud.

Here we have one of the photos.

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[Reading links]

https://writingwerewolf.wordpress.com/2020/02/13/folklores-scariest-creatures-the-tizzie-whizie/