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 […]

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 […]