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Chumash traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Chumash people of the northern and western Transverse Ranges, Santa Barbara — Ventura coast, and northern Channel Islands, in present-day Southern California . Early analysts expected Chumash oral literature to conform to the regional pattern of ...
Tapinoma melanocephalum australis Santschi, 1928. Tapinoma melanocephalum is a species of ant that goes by the common name ghost ant. They are recognised by their dark head and pale or translucent legs and gaster (abdomen). This colouring makes this tiny ant seem even smaller.
Deer Woman, sometimes known as the Deer Lady, is a spirit in Native American mythology whose associations and qualities vary, depending on situation and relationships. Generally, however, to men who have harmed women and children, she is vengeful and murderous and known to lure these men to their deaths. She appears as either a beautiful young ...
Encounter stories may be composed as Navajo victory stories, with the skin-walkers approaching a hogan and being scared away. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Non-Native interpretations of skin-walker stories typically take the form of partial encounter stories on the road, where the protagonist is temporarily vulnerable, but then escapes from the skin-walker in a ...
White Lady. A depiction of John Dee (1527–1608) and Edward Kelley invoking a spirit. A White Lady (or woman in white) is a type of female ghost. She is typically dressed in a white dress or similar garment, reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with local legends of tragedy.
Resurrection Mary is a well-known Chicago area ghost story, of the "vanishing hitchhiker" type, a type of folklore that is known in many cultures. According to the story, the ghost resides in Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago. Resurrection Mary is considered to be Chicago's most famous ghost. [1][2][3]
According to reports of Northern Paiute oral history, the Si-Te-Cah, Saiduka or Sai'i [1] (sometimes erroneously referred to as Say-do-carah or Saiekare [2] after a term said to be used by the Si-Te-Cah to refer to another group) were a legendary tribe who the Northern Paiutes fought a war with and eventually wiped out or drove away from the area, with the final battle having taken place at ...
Pocahontas (US: / ˌpoʊkəˈhɒntəs /, UK: / ˌpɒk -/; born Amonute, [1] also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief [2] of a ...