The Elemental Spirit of the Earth

The human mind is capable of sensing many things, even in sleep. Even if chief cornstalk curse meant nothing, there could be an elemental spirit of earth that's evil wanting to deceive people who sees that and says, I'm going to use that. It actually isn't the thing calling this down. And so it's not just this message of materialism that they're bringing. This is true for most cryptids, but especially mothman in Bigfoot. The problem is that if you talk to people who say they encountered Bigfoot, they say that they walk away with an unreasonable amount of fear from the event. They wouldn't think that if they came upon another crazy beast, they escaped