Place of Deavels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Place of Deavels (Devils)

In the Journals of Lewis and Clark 1804- 1806

Clark wrote about the day before they reached the mouth of the Vermillion, which they called the White Stone River.

On August 24, 1804

Cap Lewis & my Self walk out & got Verry wet, a Cloudey rainey night,—In my absence the Boat Passed a Small (2) River Called by the Indians White Stone River. this river is about 30 yards wide and runs thro a Plain & Prarie in its whole Course In a northerley direction from the mouth of this Creek in an imence Plain a high Hill is Situated, and appears of a Conic form and by the different nations of Indians in this quarter is Suppose to be the residence of Deavels. that they are in human form with remarkable large heads and about 18 Inches high, that they are Very watchfull, and are arm'd with Sharp arrows with which they Can Kill at a great distance; they are Said to Kill all persons who are So hardy as to attempt to approach the hill; they State that tradition informs them that many Indians have Suffered by those little people and among others three Mahar men fell a Sacrefise to their murceyless fury not many years Since—So much do the Maha, Souis, Ottoes and other neighbouring nations believe this fable that no Consideration is Suffecient to induce them to apporach the hill

The Omaha, the Sioux, and the Otoes believe that the mound was occupied by spirits that killed any human who came near.

Interesting description of these Deavels (Devils)

Place of Deavels

Human form Large heads

18 inches high

watchful and armed with sharp arrows

Legends

Legends are stories from our past that are circulated and believed by many even though there isn't any real life proof of truth. As you can see legends play an important part in the discovery of truth.

Some of the Native American Indians of the northwest speak of encounters with 'The Little People'. The Little People are part of the legends and myth of the Arapaho and Shoshoni, quite a few other tribes. There appears to be different types of these beings, some being more intelligent beings and those that are more violent in nature.

The Arapaho's apparently, were aware of such little people. This is what was briefly said about them.

1. According to tradition the beings were 3ft tall

2. Incredibly strong and feared because they had a taste for human flesh

3. Cannibalistic devils that perished in a great forest fire.

Here's an interesting story about Cannibal Dwarves. 

Legendary Native American Figures: Cannibal Dwarves

Although benign races of small magical creatures exist in many Native American tribes, the Little People of the Arapahos and neighboring tribes-- also known as Cannibal Dwarves or Enemy Dwarves-- are dangerous man-eaters and particular enemies of the Arapaho tribe. Their Arapaho name, Hecesiiteihii, literally means "little people." ("Teihiihan" comes from the Arapaho word for "strong"-- Arapaho dwarves are said to have superhuman strength.) In some texts they are referred to as "Nimerigar" instead, which is a name borrowed from the neighboring Shoshone tribe (who had similar legends about ferocious little people.) Descriptions of the cannibal dwarves vary somewhat from community to community, but they are usually said to be the size of children, dark-skinned, and extremely aggressive. Some storytellers say that they had the power to turn themselves invisible, while others say they were hard to spot simply because they moved with incredible speed. Some suggest that the dwarves' warlike temperament comes because they must be killed in battle to reach the dwarf afterworld. Others believe that they were gluttons who habitually killed more than they could eat just because they could. According to most versions of the story, the race of cannibal dwarves was destroyed in an ancient war with the Arapahos and other allied Native American tribes.

http://www.native-languages.org/cannibal-dwarves.htm

 

 

 

 

Puk-wud-jies. Translation of the name means little wild people of the forest

1. 2 Ft tall

 

2. white skin, brown hair and dressed in clothing made from grasses and tree bark

3. lived in caves along the riverbanks

More folklore according to Flathead tradition.

1. 3 Ft dwarves

2. considered peaceful

3.  If approached, people would fall into a swoon and awake upside down in a tree or missing some   of their clothing.

 

Stick Indians of Nez Perce, according to tradition.

1. Strange sounds, sometimes hoot like owls or howl like a coyote

2. very strong

3. kidnap people and sheep, calves

4. no tracks found

5. able to render themselves invisible and if you do see them you will endure a painful swelling of the face.

Supposedly, near Mount Adams some people were huckleberrying and decided to lock the baby in the car to keep it safe. No one else was in the car. While they were picking berries they heard the baby cry, when they reached the car the baby was gone. They heard it cry out again from another direction and that is where they found it.

I would also like to point out that in the Missing 411 Eastern United States book by David Paulides, there is a case of a missing 5 year boy, 25 miles south of Mount Adams, Washington. More of the case can be read on pg. 16-17 of that book. This young boy was later found after some lengthy searches, he was over 5 miles from the point he was last seen and he was missing one shoe and apparently in phenomenal shape for being out in the rugged wilderness for 2 full days.

If you look at some of the information provided you will begin to see that these strange occurrences are not new to North America. What really peaks my interest is that with all the people going missing in our national parks maybe, just maybe we are not looking in the right places or seeing all that is to be seen. Quite possibly these legends and oral traditions are part of the key to finding some of the answers.

I must admit there are some striking similarities to the disappearances that have occurred in our National Parks. I'm in no way saying that these are the answers to the missing persons cases, there may be a combination of phenomena happening that we haven't looked at yet.

skull, bone fragments, teeth found
• the taste for human flesh
  
  
  people found are in a semi-conscious or unconscious state lying face down with limbs extended.
  clothing removed or missing
• fall into a swoon upside down in a tree and missing some of their clothing
  
  
  victims are found near creeks rivers and streams...
• caves along the riverbanks
  
  
  
  
  Berry pickers vanishing, children found near berry bushes
• Huckleberrying

 

The Woman of Stone

In one of the niches or recesses formed by a precipice in the cavern of Kickapoo Creek, which is a tributary of the Wisconsin, there is a gigantic mass of stone presenting the appearance of a human figure. It is so sheltered by the overhanging rocks and by the sides of the recess in which it stands as to assume a dark and gloomy character. Of the figure the following legend is related:—

Once upon a time there lived a woman who was called Shenanska, or the White Buffalo Robe. She was an inhabitant of the prairie, a dweller in the cabins which stand upon the verge of the hills. She was the pride of her people, not only for her beauty, which was very great, but for her goodness. The breath of the summer wind was not milder than the temper of Shenanska, the face of the sun was not fairer than her countenance.

At length the tribe was surprised in its encampment on the banks of the Kickapoo by a numerous band of the fierce Mengwe. Many of them fell fighting bravely, the greater part of the women and children were made prisoners, and the others fled to [Pg 145] the wilds for safety. It was the fortune of Shenanska to escape from death or captivity. When the alarm of the war-whoop reached her ear as she was sleeping in her lodge with her husband, she had rushed forth with him and gone with the braves to meet their assailants. When she saw half of the men of her nation lying dead around, then she fled. She had been wounded in the battle, but she still succeeded in effecting her escape to the hills. Weakened by loss of blood, she had not strength enough left to hunt for a supply of food, and she was near perishing with hunger.

While she lay beneath the shade of a tree there came to her a being not of this world.

“Shenanska,” said he, in a gentle voice, “thou art wounded and hungry, shall I heal thee and feed thee? Wilt thou return to the lands of thy tribe and live to be old, a widow and alone, or go now to the land of departed spirits and join the shade of thy husband? The choice is thine. If thou wilt live, crippled, and bowed down by wounds and disease, thou mayest. If it would please thee better to rejoin thy friends in the country beyond the Great River, say so.”

Shenanska replied that she wished to die. The spirit took her, and placed her in one of the recesses of the cavern, overshadowed by hanging rocks. He then spoke some words in a low voice, and, breathing on her, she became stone. Determined that a woman so good and beautiful should not be forgotten by the world, he made her into a statue, to which he [Pg 146] gave the power of killing suddenly any one who irreverently approached it. For a long time the statue relentlessly exercised this power. Many an unconscious Indian, venturing too near to it, fell dead without any perceptible wound. At length, tired of the havoc the statue made, the guardian spirit took away the power he had given to it. At this day the statue may be approached with safety, but the Indians hold it in fear, not intruding rashly upon it, and when in its presence treating it with great respect.

WW Gibbons 1890

 

Loo-poo-oi'-yes the Rock Giant of Tamalpais

Loo-poo-oi'-yes the Rock Giant of Tamalpais

The Hookooeko of Nicasio and San Rafael say:

A woman had a husband and two boy babies— twins. The woman’s brother killed her husband and the little boys did not know that they ever had a father. When they were big enough they went off every day to play by a big rock in the woods. They went always to the same place; they liked this place and always went there. This was the very place where their father, when he was alive, used to go every day to sing, but the little boys did not know this—for they did not even know that they had ever had a father.

One day the boys heard somebody say: “You come here every day just as your father used to.” The voice came from the rock; it was the voice of Loo'-poo-oi'-yes 31 the Rock Giant. Then the boys knew they had had a father. They went to the rock and saw long hairs sticking up. These hairs grew out of the nostrils of Loo'-poo-oi'-yes; the boys took hold of them and pulled them out.

This made Loo'-poo-oi'-yes angry and he took a long hooked stick and tried to catch the boys to kill them. He was all rock except a place on his throat where he wore an abalone shell. The boys, saw this and shot their arrows through it and killed him. When he died he fell to pieces; the pieces were rocks and scattered over the ground. Inside he was flesh like other people, but outside he was rock, except the place on his throat where the abalone shell was.

Footnotes

235:31 The name Loo'-poo-oi'-yes means literally the old man of rock, from loo'poo rock, and oi'yes old man.

Bibliographical Information

C. Hart Merriam

C. Hart Merriam (Clinton Hart Merriam, M.D.), 1855-1942, ed. The Dawn of the World; Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California, Collected and Edited by C. Hart Merriam (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1910). 273 p. including plates (some in color). map. color frontispiece. Octavo, 25 cm. Bown in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Rough-cut pages, top edge gilt. Library of Congress Call Number E99.M69 M5. LCCN 10-009808. Bibliographies: Clark & Burnet 160, Cowan (2) 425, Rocq. 15596. Note: Mewan is an southern Miwok variation of Miwok and means “people.”

Scanned by J. B. Hare, redactor, at sacred-texts.com, August 2003. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.

• According to Frank Latta, in Handbook of the Yokuts Indians (1949), pp. 89-90, some of these stories are actually Yokuts myths, with Mewuk names substituted for Yokuts names. Chowchilla Mewuk informants should have been identified as Chowchilla Yokuts and Hool-poom-ne Mewuk should have been identified as Hulpumne Yokuts.

Che-ha-lum'-che



Che-ha-lum'-che the Rock Giant catching People to eat

THE ROCK GIANTS

Che-ha-lum'-che the Rock Giant of Calaveras County

The Northern Mewuk say:

Che-ha-lum'-che the Rock Giant carries on his back a big burden basket (che'-ka-la) which, like himself, is of rock. He lives in caves, of which there are two near Mountain Ranch or El Dorado in Calaveras County, one at Murphys, and one on Stanislaus River.

Che-ha-lum'-che comes out only at night and wanders about seeking Mewuk [people] to eat. He prefers women; of these he catches and carries off all he can find. Sometimes he makes a crying noise, hoo-oo'-oo like a baby, to lure them. If they come he seizes them and tosses them into his big pack basket and carries them to his cave, where he eats them. In the basket is a long spike which pierces their bodies when they are thrown in, so they can not escape.

In his caves are the remains of his victims—horns of deer and bones of people and different kinds of animals.

Indians never throw their dead into caves. If they did, Che-ha-lum'-che would get them. Any man who would put a dead person in a cave would be killed by the other Indians. 30

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Footnotes

232:30 Many human skulls and skeletons have been found in eaves along the west slope of the middle Sierra. The presence of human remains in these caves has been interpreted to mean that the Indians now living in the region practise cave burial, or did practise it until recent times. This is an error. The Indians of this region, the Mewuk, burned their dead, and look with horror on the suggestion that they or their ancestors might ever have put their dead in caves. They ask: “Would you put your mother, or your wife, or your child, or any one you love, in a cave to be eaten by a horrible giant?” The idea is so abhorrent to them that the theory of cave burial must be abandoned as preposterous.

The mythology of the Mewuk does not admit of any migration but describes the creation of the people in the area they still inhabit. This, in connection with the fact that these Indians speak a language wholly different from any known in any other part of the world, proves that they have occupied the lands they now occupy for a very long period—a period—which in my judgment should be measured by thousands of years.

This argues a great antiquity for the cave remains, for they must be those of a people who inhabited the region before the Mewuk came—and this takes us back a very long way into the past.

Bibliographical Information

C. Hart Merriam

C. Hart Merriam (Clinton Hart Merriam, M.D.), 1855-1942, ed. The Dawn of the World; Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California, Collected and Edited by C. Hart Merriam (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1910). 273 p. including plates (some in color). map. color frontispiece. Octavo, 25 cm. Bown in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Rough-cut pages, top edge gilt. Library of Congress Call Number E99.M69 M5. LCCN 10-009808. Bibliographies: Clark & Burnet 160, Cowan (2) 425, Rocq. 15596. Note: Mewan is an southern Miwok variation of Miwok and means “people.”

Scanned by J. B. Hare, redactor, at sacred-texts.com, August 2003. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.

• According to Frank Latta, in Handbook of the Yokuts Indians (1949), pp. 89-90, some of these stories are actually Yokuts myths, with Mewuk names substituted for Yokuts names. Chowchilla Mewuk informants should have been identified as Chowchilla Yokuts and Hool-poom-ne Mewuk should have been identified as Hulpumne Yokuts.
  

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The Unexplained

With so many unexplained disappearances there must be some connecting links between all these cases. I've listed some of the strangeness below. More detailed information can be found in Mr. Paulides books on the subject.

In David Paulides books covering the Eastern & Western US is a map that is included showing the numerous cluster cases found. Clusters are grouped together by when and where they happened, time, and type. Whats highly unusual is there is a corridor right down the middle where there are no cases found. Strange as this may be the missing persons issues are not all recent some depending on the region have been going on for centuries.

Information is not always easily obtained, there's been difficulty even when the Freedom of Information Act has been used to obtain information. A few of the cases information was withheld for no real apparent good reason. This also raises suspicion that someone may indeed know more.

It's also hard to believe that the National Park Service according to policy doesn't keep track of the missing people inside their system and they have no lists of the missing. Wouldn't a wise response be to keep track of missing individuals.

Another puzzling factor is the bone fragments found, in a few of the cases, all that was left was a skull and a few teeth. Which brings us to a good question what happened to the rest of the body. Oddly clothing, such as the pants have been taken off and left lying near the scene. The pants are sometimes inside out and not to mention no blood found on the articles of clothing. Boots are missing. Some of the clothing that would have been worn has disappeared and never been found.

 

Is there a logical conclusion, I honestly could not answer that.

The CanAm Missing Project

http://www.canammissing.com/page/page/8396197.htm

http://www.canammissing.com/jaryd-atadero.html

Connecting the dots... Similarities do exist.

What exactly is going on and who or what is involved. If anyone could have answered that then they would have solved the million dollar question.


 

Mysterious disappearances in our National Parks

 

 

There are strange and disturbing mysteries of people disappearing in our National parks, vanishing without a trace. David Paulides, former lawman turned investigative journalist is the author of Missing 411 Eastern United States and also Missing 411 Western United States, and his latest book on the chilling subject is Missing 411 North America and Beyond. All three deal with unexplained disappearances in North America and his latest book includes 5 other countries.

 

Some of the main parks mentioned are Yosemite National Park, Great Smokey National Park, Glacier National Park, Crater Lake National Park. Apparently, there appears to be consistent elements which are unique to these cases, a few of those include, Storms or bad weather follows after the person has gone missing. Trained tracking dogs that are unable to track a scent. Berry bushes/Briar Patches. There are also clusters of missing people in certain geographical areas.

 

Hats off to all the individuals that have worked relentlessly in the endeavor to find the truth of these disappearances.