The gallinipper is a cryptid in the African-American folk tradition.
[1] These creatures were said to be a species of giant mosquitoes so big that their bones could fence a 140-acre (57 ha) field.
[1][2] A popular telling of the legends has the creature get its bill out of a tree trunk, with the animal being large enough to clear 140 acres of land during the struggle.
[1][3][4] Gallinipper tales were appropriated as a feature of minstrel shows, but have also appeared in American blues songs such as "Mosquito Moan" by Blind Lemon Jefferson [Paramount 12899], 1929.
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