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I am your host, Miss Rebecca Jane Felgate – you loved part one so part two is ON…this
is the Top 10 Scary Native Urban Legends PART 2!
I love these Urban legends videos as I feel like I am learning some really good cultural
history!
Do you guys like history to?
If so what is your favourite period of history you have learned about?
I love ancient cultures like Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, but I also love Europe 1910
– 1945.
It was all kicking off wasn’t it!
Let’s have a history chat in the comments section down below –
Thunder is a big
part of most Native American cultures… this legend comes from the Cherokee….
10- The Thunder Boys Okay there are actually two concerning Cherokee
myths and legends about thunder – One is a legend that involves so called Little People
who cause sharp claps of thunder and can cause lightning strikes near women, causing them
to be impregnated with a Little Person, who is destined to be born and continue the lineage
of the small thunder people….
But the most popular legend is of the Thunder Boys, the sons of the first man who live in
the earths cliffs, mountains and waterfalls.
The Thunder boys bring rain which blesses the earth, but they can also choose to harm
people and bring about mischief.
A legend that is very close to my adopted home in Toronto…
9 - The Dragon of Lake Ontario According to the Seneca people, there is a
fire breathing dragon that lives in the rivers and lakes of Canada, but most prominently
in Lake Ontario…sooo I better watch out when I am on the Toronto Islands over the
summer!
I might be snatched by Gaasyendietha … what a tongue twister.
Gaasyendietha was thought to have travelled to earth in a meteor and landed in the lake
that sits amid the border of the USA and Canada.
The story of the dragon permeates both native American and early settler history.
Back when Toronto was called York and Canada wasn’t its own thing yet, European settlers
noticed something going on in Lake Ontario.
Was it a giant snake?
Was it a trick of the eye?
As the 1800s progressed and the city that would eventually become Toronto developed,
more reports of a huge 30ft snake in the lake kept surfacing.
It seems old snakey in the lakey liked to swim, too.
He was also spotted in Kingston, Ontario leading to the popular legends of Kingstie.
Sure enough, the Seneca had called it long before the 1800s sightings.
Today many cryptozoologists think the lake monster could be some sort of relict Plesiosaur,
a large, long necked marine reptile.
The last time someone spotted Gaasyendietha was in the late 1960s.
8 - The Animals Revenge I hate to break it to you but, according to
the Cherokee anyway, animals are NOT happy with us… and I guess who can blame them.
The people of the Cherokee still exist today and originated from the Appalachians….
My goodness it is my absolute dream to hike the Appalachian trail!
I feel it in my bones.
That being said, I would need to do my best to appease the animals!
It is a long held belief that once upon a time animals and humans lived in peace and
harmony – back then the power of all animals, including the humans, was far more equal,
but then the human population started to swell…which meant that they got stronger.
Legend has it that the animals met to discuss what they would do to protect themselves.
It is said that a council of deers and bears met and decided to bring plague on hunters
who killed for sport rather than need, and a council of birds, insects and small animals
concocted infectious disease to spread humans too.
Luckily the plants are on our side, and they vowed that for every disease created by the
animals, they would create a cure.
Sadly there is no cure for human weapons like bullets and knives though, ehy… just a good
old fashioned hopeful stitch up.
7 - The Burial Grounds Ahh, the ancient Native Burrial Ground!
This is an enduring urban legend across America and basically the premise of the movie Poltergeist.
There are many a ghosts story that come from the building upon sacred ground, usually by
big cooperation’s who disregard the scare stories surrounding land they think will be
profitable.
One example comes from Rockrimmon, Colorado Springs, which is alleged to be built on an
ancient burial ground and old native American settlement.
The Rockimmon restaurant in question has been haunted by an angry looking native American
man with a dour face.
Apparently the disgruntled ghost turns on taps, jangles keys and produces phantom screams…
could be worse though, right?!
6 - The Bearers of Bad News Beware the Owls – or so say the Cherokee.
Owls are actually a very important part of a lot of native American cultures… the owls
man….
The owls are not what they seem….
Anyone else a twin peaks fan?
I personally love a good owl, but it seems to the Cherokee people they are messengers,
but not just any messengers, owls bring bad news or bad luck.
For the Apache people, dreaming of an owl signifies an approaching death… and to the
cree people, answering an owl with a whistle and hearing no response is another signifier
of death.
These owls.
Baddies.
5 - The Ghost Dance The Ghost Dance is a relatively new religious
movement that has been incorporated into a number of native American beliefs.
The dance was established in around the 1890s in accordance to the teachings of Wovoka.
The dance, which is still performed today by the Caddo of Oklahoma today, is intended
to reunited the living with the spirits of the dead, bringing the spirits back to fight
white colonists and to bring about peace and unity for the tribes.
It is thought by performing the dance, people can bring about a new world.
4 - The Ice Giant Chenoo The legend of Chenoo comes from the Wabanaki
people and is somewhat similar to legends of the Sasquatch or the abominable snowman.
Chenoo is supposed to be a huge bigfood like creature that lives in snowy plains.
He was once a human who committed a horrible crime, which led to his heart freezing and
him being turned into a troll like monster who cared only to kill any human he can find,
with all love and compassion a long distant memory!
3 - Water Panther Oooh this is another from near my hood, although
a lot of first nations people across America believe in the Water Panther, not just the
people of the Algonquin.
I have been to Algonquin Park a few times and I have to admit it is pretty freaky at
night…
I wrote a blogpost on my website about a night spent under a full moon in the park which
was horrifying in many ways… but I never encountered the Water Panther.
The Cree, Algonquin and Shawnee believe that there is a water monster, a giant dragonlike
feline who dwells in rivers and lakes who waits for humans to come close and then pulls
them under and drowns them.
The Panther is said to have a tail that can hold stuff too, making it even better at killing.
There is indeed a lake called Panther Lake in Algonquin National Park …which I feel
like I need to stay away from next time I go back….
I’d probably stay away from Bandit Lake and Mouse Lake too.
2 - The Ghosts of Wounded Knee The Wounded knee massacre took place in Pine
Ridge at Wounded Knee Creek on December 29 1890.
It seems that Spotted Elk, a leader on the US Army’s list of Trouble Making Indians
was stopped by officers who forced him to relocate with his people to Wounded Knee.
The next morning, the US Army opened fire when one deaf member of a small Lakota tribe
didn’t relinquish his weapon.
23 US soldiers died, mostly from their own friendly fire, and 153 Lakota, mostly women
and children were killed.
These days it is said by those who still live and work around the cabins and community of
wounded knee head the cries of women and children echoing through the canyon, especially in
winter.
1 - He Who Must Not Be Named This is kind of like the Native American Voldemort….
Now I know JK Rowling’s dark wizard is a work of fiction, and even if he wasn’t I
am a Slytherin and I fancy my chances in a cheeky duel… but I don’t know about invoking
the spirit of a dark soul eater from the Choctaw tribe.
They have a name for it… but I am not going to say it because the Choctaw avoid saying
it at all costs.
It seems that this soul eater is a shadow who permeates into peoples bodies, filling
them with evil thoughts and depression.
Eventually it creeps into their very soul and eats them alive.
You don’t want an encounter with this shadow spirit….so don’t say his name.
Well well well!
That was the Top 10 Scary Native American Urban Legends!
I feel like I have learned something!
Have you?
Let me know in the comments section which legend you found the spookiest and don’t
forget to let me know what you think is the most interesting historical era!
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