Wild men of Central Asia: A Cryptozoological analysis of Jonathan Swifts Yahoo

Abstract

The influence of animals in literature is a well-acclaimed phenomenon. Numerous ways have been devised by writers, poets, and artists to use animal references in their works to justify their ideologies. One has to understand that the mythological and fictional species of animals have strong connections with their real-life counterparts. Zoologists and cryptozoologists are researching to understand and unravel those connections. We need to analyze their multidimensional existence. In my paper, I have attempted to create such a connection between the myth of ‘Central Asian wildmen’ and Jonathan Swift's 'Yahoos'. A cryptozoological evaluation of the relation may unravel the ecological chain which is connecting the two species.