Talking Animals and Medicine People: The Supernaturalism of the Upstate Iroquois One of the world's most impressive storytelling traditions is that of the six New York Iroquois nations. The Longhouse folk who call themselves Hodenosaunee populated the hills, woods and creeks of the upstate with a virtual zoo of supernatural beings, and their imaginations thrilled to […]

Alas, Poor Ghost! A FREE lecture by MASON WINFIELD courtesy of University Express Most Americans get all their impressions about ghosts, poltergeists, ESP, near-death experiences, and other “supernatural” topics from entertainment sources: TV, movies, and fiction. An alternate picture is out there, and it is one open only to specialists – until now. Join author-researcher […]

People of European descent took Native American land, but the land’s first tenants may still have a hold on the living. “Native Americans take supernatural possession of their dispossessors,” wrote Renee Bergland. Once the rest of us stopped slaughtering them, as folklorist Louis C. Jones observed, we started to supernaturalize them. Almost as though speaking to […]

America's ethnic groups have not only distinct natural cultures; they have colorful supernatural folk-traditions, too, that often last to this day in family report. While the fairies, banshees, leprechauns and curses of the Old World don't seem to have crossed the Atlantic in their classic forms, something answering to them can occasionally be found in […]

Talking Animals and Medicine People: The Supernaturalism of the Upstate Iroquois One of the world's most impressive storytelling traditions is that of the six New York Iroquois nations. The Longhouse folk who call themselves Hodenosaunee populated the hills, woods and creeks of the upstate with a virtual zoo of supernatural beings, and their imaginations thrilled to […]

A Series of Presentations by Mason Winfield Three years of steady fighting soaked both sides of the Niagara in tragedy and left no part of the frontier untouched. Little wonder that a vivid folk-culture exists today, though it is little-known to the public. The heroes and heroines who raged and died in the Niagara war […]

Talking Animals and Medicine People: The Supernaturalism of the Upstate Iroquois One of the world's most impressive storytelling traditions is that of the six New York Iroquois nations. The Longhouse folk who call themselves Hodenosaunee populated the hills, woods and creeks of the upstate with a virtual zoo of supernatural beings, and their imaginations thrilled to […]

Talking Animals and Medicine People: The Supernaturalism of the Upstate Iroquois One of the world's most impressive storytelling traditions is that of the six New York Iroquois nations. The Longhouse folk who call themselves Hodenosaunee populated the hills, woods and creeks of the upstate with a virtual zoo of supernatural beings, and their imaginations thrilled to […]

America's ethnic groups have not only distinct natural cultures; they have colorful supernatural folk-traditions, too, that often last to this day in family report. While the fairies, banshees, leprechauns and curses of the Old World don't seem to have crossed the Atlantic in their classic forms, something answering to them can occasionally be found in […]

America's ethnic groups have not only distinct natural cultures; they have colorful supernatural folk-traditions, too, that often last to this day in family report. While the fairies, banshees, leprechauns and curses of the Old World don't seem to have crossed the Atlantic in their classic forms, something answering to them can occasionally be found in […]