Beehive State Monsters: Cryptids & Legends of Utah
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sbaldrick
- Level 4: Wanderer
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- Joined: December 17th, 2018, 10:44 am
- Location: Provo, Utah
I have been reading this book https://www.amazon.com/Beehive-State-Mo ... 1945950358. The forward is written by a friend of mine that writes sword and sorcery and weird western short stories along with a handful of novels. I had forgotten how unsettling the Navajos' stories of the skinwalkers were to me. I heard them from a white man at Boy Scout camp at night and they freaked me out. My dad heard them from his Navajos foster brothers and sisters. He said that a Navajos would tell you the stories in broad daylight and it would scare the hell out of you. There are Navajos that follow the traditional religion of the tribe. There are a lot of Navajos that are Catholic. There are a lot of Navajos that are Mormon but regardless of that, they ALL believe in the skinwalkers.
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Necron 99
- Level 8: Noble
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- Location: Jacksonville, FL
Very cool. Yeah, I'm a fan of Native American myths and legends. You can get some really great ideas from them for sure and some of them will make you scratch your head, because as far as you can tell, those telling the stories are being as truthful as they can or, at least in their mind, believe what they are telling.
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” - Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Captain_Blood
- Level 6: Adventurer
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Don't get me started on the 'Flayed Man' monster that a contemporary of ours who used to run a game store created. Just reading skinwalker made me think of it.
“May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.” -Malcom Reynolds