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Weird Wisconsin: Your Travel Guide To Wisconsin's Local Legends And Best Kept Secrets (1 ed.). Milwaukee: Sterling. pp. 272. ISBN 978-0-7607-5944-8; Tales from Wisconsin's Darkside; Archived 2013-05-30 at the Wayback Machine; wisconsinosity.com
The creature has become a part of Wisconsin folklore and has been the subject of multiple books, documentaries, and a 2005 horror film. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Named for the rural farm road on which it was first purportedly sighted, reports of the creature in the 1980s and 1990s prompted a local newspaper, the Walworth County Week , to assign reporter ...
Wisakedjak (Wìsakedjàk in Algonquin, Wīsacaklesss(w) in Cree and Wiisagejaak in Oji-cree) is the Crane Manitou found in northern Algonquian and Dene storytelling, similar to the trickster Nanabozho in Ojibwa aadizookaanan (sacred stories), Inktonme in Assiniboine lore, and Coyote or Raven from many different tribes [citation needed].
The legend goes that the lady in white was murdered by a man who wanted to marry her. When her family rejected the marriage, he shot and killed the woman out of anger.
Wales is located at (43.003882, -88.377558 It is about 28 miles (45 km) west of Milwaukee.The city is also a few miles south of Lapham Peak State Forest, notable for its many popular hiking trails and for being home to the highest point in Waukesha County, at 1,233 ft (376 m) above sea level.
Many Quakers from Wales emigrated to Pennsylvania in the 17th century with a promise from William Penn that they would be allowed to set up a Welsh colony there. The Welsh Tract was to have been a separate county whose local government would use the Welsh language, since many of the settlers spoke no English.
The original town hall, now the Wales-Genesee Lions and Lioness Club, was built in 1912 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Another historic site in Genesee Depot is Ten Chimneys, the home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, so known because among the three buildings on the site, there are ten chimneys. Lunt and Fontanne's ...
Glooscap turning man into a cedar tree. Scraping on birchbark by Tomah Joseph 1884. Glooscap (variant forms and spellings Gluskabe, Glooskap, Gluskabi, Kluscap, Kloskomba, or Gluskab) is a legendary figure of the Wabanaki peoples, native peoples located in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Atlantic Canada.