P.S. Uffa da is one of my best half's favorite expressions, and I've never heard anybody else use it before now!
lol, your best half probably has Norwegian family in Minnesota. It's a pretty particular saying for that area/ethnic group. Hats off to my fellow Scandinavian!
Taking a few breaks here and there but I'll definitely be posting more. Did just break down and give the imgur link as I couldn't get the image to insert in and add attachment didn't work. Definitely take a look at that photo.
Post by Mystic Wanderer on Nov 26, 2014 16:18:41 GMT -6
That's wild! Thanks for taking time to share this with us. The natives are a mysterious bunch of people. I've always found their "practices" very interesting.
I never saw any skinwalkers where I grew up, but there were plenty of unmarked Cherokee burial grounds all over the place. I think the "ghost" in our basement was a Cherokee; just a very strong feeling I always had. I often wondered if my dad unknowingly dug up a grave when he dug the basement. :o Whatever it was, it lived in the basement and only came out when I was alone.
The head on the skin looks like a modern taxidermist's mounting form. The teeth and tongue in it certainly are. Both are for a mountain lion, from the looks of them.
What makes these yenaldlooshi "dangerous"? How is it they poison one?
Did just break down and give the imgur link as I couldn't get the image to insert in and add attachment didn't work. Definitely take a look at that photo.
Is this the image you wanted to post???
Had a friend a few years back talking about skin-walkers, so it's been awhile since I heard anyone else mention them
Thanks for sharing this
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Datura Stramonium I know - we have it here, and call it "Jimson Weed". "Seeing in the dark" and "moving quietly" sounds like me - the rest, they sort of sound like Navajo ninjas, because the methods of poisoning and clambering around on rooftops and whatnot makes them sound that way.
Entirely human, but not entirely wholesome.
Some part of the description sound a lot like Shawnee witches. They are claimed to be able to shape-shift in legend, but the most common form for them to take is as an owl. Some of them have pretty... unwholesome... reputations, too.
Ninjas were usually born into clans, and didn't have much say in it, either. Their training, I'm told, started around age 5.
There was an old Apache named Stalking Wolf who trained Tom Brown to interact with nature starting at a pretty young age (early teens or "tweens" as I recall), and I'm guessing there are some similarities in the movements and tactics taught. It's downright spooky how "invisible" one can get when that sort of training is internalized, as it would be from early training onward. Note that "invisible" doesn't necessarily mean "unseen", but can also mean "unidentifiable" - as in not being able to tell that a human IS a human.
Jimson weed also contains a pretty powerful alkaloid - it alters the mind, as well as physiological responses. The story here is that it got that name from an "accidental" ingestion (they knew they were eating it, but didn't know what it was or would do) in a salad amongst some of the earlier settlers of Jamestowne, VA. From "Jamestowne weed" a corruption to "Jimson weed". The mania it produced at that time was evidently something to behold - serious enough to make a permanent association in the name.
It seems possible that over time some of those responses could become permanent - I've seen long-term drug users that will never be right again, a similar situation. That could explain the odd behavior of the interviewee in the meeting you describe. he may not have been "stoned" at the time, but been suffering from permanent debility from use over time.
That could include permanently blown pupils - which would be an aid in navigating darkness, and a curse in handling sudden bright light. I know that when I'm dark-adjusted for several hours, a sudden light will actually give me nearly unbearable headaches.
No wonder they ran and never came back. You may have hit on a defense mechanism - until the time comes that they figure out to bust the bulbs before making themselves known.