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Native Americans of Reddit describe their tribes ghost stories, legends, or supernatural occurrences
- mysterious world
- May 13, 2022
- 4 min read
r/illusoryacid I’m Ts’mshian and we seem to have a lot of shapeshifters which some are uhh…. Questionable. I think a lot of them are similar to the idea of skinwalkers, but some of the shapeshifters (like raven) have been a huge part of getting the things we need like the moon and stars (although mostly through… trickery). I’ve known some people who swear they’ve come into contact with shapeshifters that usually end up being like a mimic of someone they know (usually somekne with them) but are often faceless. There was apparently a ghost war once. Mosquitoes were once a bloodthirsty group of people.
r/Faith-Hope-Tacobell
Uktena. It’s a legend about a horned snake in Tsalagi (Cherokee) legend. Uktena is said to be very large and round like a tree trunk, with horns on his head. The only way to wound him is to shoot at a singular spot on his forehead that emits bright light. It’s similar to a diamond. If you defeat Uktena, you become a miracle worker. A great warrior. Yet, once you see the light of his forehead, you run toward it instead of trying to escape. Even to see Uktena sleeping is death. Not to the hunter, but to his family.
r/4050kie Joe The Raven Mocker was our version of the bogeyman. The most feared of the Cherokee witches, they prey on the sick and dying. They eat the heart of their victim and add years to their life for every year their victim would have lived.
r/unknown
‘The flame walker. Spirits who take the form of a small blue flame, that leads people into the swamps and bogs, where they eventually drown or otherwise vanish. (yes they are basically will-o-wisps) Another are the ‘Water Faced hunters’ (again rough translation, and i am not heavily involved with my tribe these days). These creatures have a face that acts like a pool of water, reflecting the face of anyone who looks them in the ‘eyes’. They mercilessly hunt down the people who ‘acknowledge them’. The only way to avoid them is to not speak to, or others interact with a stranger unless you can see their face from the corner of your eye. We also have the more traditional skinwalker type legends, as well the Bogmen. My Tribe is considered part of the Abenaki, but are actually a smaller ‘sub tribe’ basically when it came down to it, there were not enough of the tribe to actually be considered a tribe anymore. Today we number fewer than 200, and only 8 of those are more than half blooded. My bio father and his brother, as well as my paternal grandparents are the last 4 full blooded of my tribe.
r/bok_bok We have a spirit similar in aboriginal culture. Its called a mimi spirit. Basically when you go walk about this spirit (day or night) will try and trick you into following it. It will appear, you walk to it and its vanished. It will appear again, you again follow it for it to disappear. Repeat this multiple times and you are lost forever. I was 7 when I first actually met an elder whos son was taken by the mimi spirit. Ill never forget her broken face when she told my class.
r/THCInjection I feel like I may be late but I have a lot of aboriginal myths. Most are old tales that involve magic or giants, taking animals. Cunning ravens, the birth of the Tli Cho people; but more sinister of tales, the Nahga. The aboriginal version of Bigfoot. I also know of an Inuktitut take about witches that live under the ocean called the Qallipiliuit. I’m a northern Canadian with an aboriginal father and a white mother. The tales heard where either from teachers, grandparents, or friends who have embraced their culture. So let me know if you want to hear some stories
r/spanishLION Dene from northern British Columbia here, my mom used to always tell me stories of the Nehgunni, or bushmen/wild-men when I was young, they were people who lived in the forest and took away people who wandered too far out, specifically children. I always figured these stories were created by my people to serve two purposes, first to teach young children to not wander far off, and second to give explanations to kidnappings done by other tribes, which was a fairly common occurrence even up until the early to mid 20th century, my grandmothers brother was taken by Cree from Alberta and raised by them. They had assumed he had died until decades later when they were reunited and learned what had happened.
r/lilbugjuice
I’m Cherokee and growing up the Uktena (horned serpent) really freaked me out. The mountain my family lived on has these mysterious glowing lights that according to legend was from the Uktena trying to trick people into finding it. There is also Spearfinger, an old lady who can transform into your loved ones and eat your liver.
r/kalimah1 So the first one is called See-at-co (don’t know the translation in English). Lived at this lake and it’s was his spot, we DO NOT go there or he will kill you. Used to have nightmares about him based on what I was taught as a kid. Like how you could stand at the edge of the water and be looking in and he would come out of it and just grab you. But then the mountain blew up and filled in the lake so don’t know if he’s still around or not. The second I don’t remember the name but translated into to English is “dangerous being” who lives in rivers and drowns people. Anthropologists think it was our way of describing dangerous log jams and whirl pools in our river.
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