Iroquois Supernatural - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iroquois Supernatural write by Michael Bastine. This book was released on 2011-08-16. Iroquois Supernatural available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brings the paranormal beings and places of the Iroquois folklore tradition to life through historic and contemporary accounts of otherworldly encounters • Recounts stories of shapeshifting witches, giant flying heads, enchanted masks, ethereal lights, talking animals, Little People, spirit-choirs, potent curses, and haunted hills, roads, and battlefields • Includes accounts of miraculous healings by shamans and medicine people such as Mad Bear and Ted Williams • Shows how these traditions can help one see the richness of the world and help those who have lost the chants of their own ancestors With a rich history reaching back more than one thousand years, the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy--the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Seneca, and the Tuscarora--are considered to be the most avid storytellers on earth with a collection of tales so vast it would dwarf those of any other society. Covering nearly the whole of New York State from the Hudson and Mohawk River Valleys westward across the Finger Lakes region to Niagara Falls and Salamanca, this mystical culture’s supernatural tradition is the psychic bedrock of the Northeast, yet their treasury of tales and beliefs is largely unknown and their most powerful sacred sites unrecognized. Assembling the lore and beliefs of this guarded spiritual legacy, Michael Bastine and Mason Winfield share the stories they have collected of both historic and contemporary encounters with beings and places of Iroquois legend: shapeshifting witches, strange forest creatures, ethereal lights, vampire zombies, cursed areas, dark magicians, talking animals, enchanted masks, and haunted hills, roads, and battlefields as well as accounts of miraculous healings by medicine people such as Mad Bear and Ted Williams. Grounding their tales with a history of the Haundenosaunee, the People of the Long House, the authors show how the supernatural beings, places, and customs of the Iroquois live on in contemporary paranormal experience, still surfacing as startling and sometimes inspiring reports of otherworldly creatures, haunted sites, after-death messages, and mystical visions. Providing a link with America’s oldest spiritual roots, these stories help us more deeply know the nature and super-nature around us as well as offer spiritual insights for those who can no longer hear the chants of their own ancestors.
Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History
Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History write by Anthony Wonderley. This book was released on 2024-11-15. Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first major book to explore uniquely Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and specifically Oneida, components in the Native American oral narrative as it existed around 1900. Drawn largely from early twentieth-century journals by non-Indigenous scholar Hope Emily Allen, much of which was published in Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History for the first time. Even as he studies time-honored themes and such stories as the Haudenosaunee account of creation, Anthony Wonderley breaks new ground examining links between legend, history, and everyday life. He pointedly questions how oral traditions are born and develop. Uncovering tales told over the course of 400 years, Wonderley further defines and considers endurance and sequence in oral narratives.. Finally, possible links between Oneida folklore and material culture are explored in discussions of craft works and archaeological artifacts of cultural and symbolic importance. Arguably the most complete study of its kind, the book will appeal to a wide range of professional disciplines from anthropology, history, and folklore to religion and Native American studies.
Curiosities of Central New York
Curiosities of Central New York - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Curiosities of Central New York write by Melanie Zimmer. This book was released on 2012-09-04. Curiosities of Central New York available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The people of Central New York know there's something different--perhaps strange--in the air. Across this vast and often wild region, history and lore are remarkably and markedly unusual. Ancient Iroquois mystical traditions still infuse the landscape with a sense of the otherworldly, and for some, witchcraft was a constant fear throughout the nineteenth century. Monsters and even fairies roam the region, frightening or delighting those who say they have encountered them. Visit the world's smallest church in Oneida and North America's only Tibetan monastery, Namgyal, in Ithaca. Join local folklorist Melanie Zimmer as she explores the curiosities of Central New York.
Connecting Cultures
Connecting Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Connecting Cultures write by Rebecca L. Thomas. This book was released on 1996-01-30. Connecting Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive guide to multicultural literature for children, this valuable resource features more than 1,600 titles—including fiction, folktales, poetry, and song books—that focus on diverse cultural groups. The selected titles, pubished between the 1970s and 1990s are suitable for use with preschoolers through sixth graders and are likely to be found on the shelves of school and public libraries. Topics are timely, with an emphasis on books that reflect the needs and interests of today's children. Each detailed entry includes bibliographic information. Use level is also included, as are cultural designation, subjects, and a summary. The invaluable Subject Access section incorporates use level culture information.
Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution write by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 1883. Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
