Hawaiian culture is, by nature, legends and myths, to a large extent similar to that in other Polynesian islands. As in every culture, from the need to explain the world around them. They explain how life came to be, and were from one generation to the next orally. There are too many gods in the retail trade in an article, but here are some of my favorites.
The Menehune are magical "little people" of Hawaii. The legend is the highest on the island of Kauai, where traditions say Waimea Canyon was the home of the Menehune. These people are usually very playful and physically too short, about two meters high, but some are only six inches high. Hand-walls, the temples and the fish are, the work of the builders. It is interesting that the Menehune can only work at night under the glow of moon, and when they were discovered or not completed, the project is before the dawn, they left. Fortunately, it is not often.
Pele, the goddess of fire, said today in a life Halemaumau crater on the summit of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii. The legends are in the way that Pele was at this point, but most say they come from Tahiti. She left his place of birth, possibly because they want to travel, or because they were in exile from her father for his bad character, or because they were chased from his house to his brother rage, her husband, she seduces. Whatever it is, at the end of Pele in Hawaii. First, in Kauai, then Oahu, Maui, Molokai, and before he takes on the Big Island. The most famous legends about Maui is bad luck curse she said to the person who rocks from the archipelago. Thousands of pieces of lava stones, each year in Hawaii, by the people who say have terrible bad fate since his rocks.
The march of the night is another of my favorites. These are considered high or Shadow Warrior ali'i (leader) of spirits. They are wrong on certain points some nights, beat drums, vocals and for the burner. Wanderer in the night due to rumor Oahu - the Pali Highway, Nuuanu Pali Lookout and Kualoa Ranch, among others. La Perouse Bay on the island of Maui and Molokai Kaunakakai town on other sites reported. If you witnessed one night in March, says the legend, you have to crouch low to avoid the eyes and death if not the run of the night is you and you is death. If you like, the stories of ghosts, one of the Ghost Tours on Oahu.
There is much more popular Hawaiian legends and myths, of which Filou demigod Maui, the shark Nana'ue man, Laka, the goddess of hula, and Kane, the father of living organisms. Many of these legends are still preserved and the hula and chants for Hawaiian culture
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
"Ghost Legends from Demonologists"
A massive eatery in an antebellum house near the University of West Georgia may have a history of ghosts. (Source: The Mansion).
Back in 1985 a couple named Bill and Laraine Warren conducted a lecture of ghosts, spirits, and apparitions filling conversations, leading a group through The Mansion Restaurant in Carrollton, Georgia, and showed slides of houses they had explored as demonologists. Calling themselves
"ghostbusters," they said they had conducted chilling exorcisms and supernatural encounters. (Source: Bill and Laraine Warren).
The Warrens, who had been in the business of demonology 40 years as of 1985, led a group of 13 through the restaurant to see if the myth that it was haunted was true. (Source: Nancy Moss).
Among those who went were myself, my friend Jayne Fuller, of the College Program Board, and Tim Evans of Student Activities.
When the group reached the top floor of the restaurant, Mrs. Warren, who said she had ESP, said she felt the spirits of a little girl who had lived there with her family: a boy, man, and woman dressed in a 1920s-style dress. Mrs. Warren said she was scared of the spirit of the man and wasn't sure where he fit in with the family, but she liked the lady. Although the others couldn't feel any presence in the room, Mrs. Warren could describe the apparition in detail, Fuller said.
At the lecture, Fuller introduced the couple as "Seekers of the supernatural" then showed slides portraying a magazine cover they had graced, houses explored, and celebrities posed with in pictures. After the slides, Mrs. Warren was introduced, addressing the audience by telling of her experience with a farmer who had bizarre things happen to him.
"We were contacted by an elderly priest who was concerned with the possession of a 46-year-old farmer," she began. "We visited him...He seemed like a hardworking man. He had been experiencing this phenomena for 20 years until finally he called on his priest to help him."
Among the occurences that happened to him was an incident when he was lighting the tree at Christmas and was thrown across the room.
Back in 1985 a couple named Bill and Laraine Warren conducted a lecture of ghosts, spirits, and apparitions filling conversations, leading a group through The Mansion Restaurant in Carrollton, Georgia, and showed slides of houses they had explored as demonologists. Calling themselves
"ghostbusters," they said they had conducted chilling exorcisms and supernatural encounters. (Source: Bill and Laraine Warren).
The Warrens, who had been in the business of demonology 40 years as of 1985, led a group of 13 through the restaurant to see if the myth that it was haunted was true. (Source: Nancy Moss).
Among those who went were myself, my friend Jayne Fuller, of the College Program Board, and Tim Evans of Student Activities.
When the group reached the top floor of the restaurant, Mrs. Warren, who said she had ESP, said she felt the spirits of a little girl who had lived there with her family: a boy, man, and woman dressed in a 1920s-style dress. Mrs. Warren said she was scared of the spirit of the man and wasn't sure where he fit in with the family, but she liked the lady. Although the others couldn't feel any presence in the room, Mrs. Warren could describe the apparition in detail, Fuller said.
At the lecture, Fuller introduced the couple as "Seekers of the supernatural" then showed slides portraying a magazine cover they had graced, houses explored, and celebrities posed with in pictures. After the slides, Mrs. Warren was introduced, addressing the audience by telling of her experience with a farmer who had bizarre things happen to him.
"We were contacted by an elderly priest who was concerned with the possession of a 46-year-old farmer," she began. "We visited him...He seemed like a hardworking man. He had been experiencing this phenomena for 20 years until finally he called on his priest to help him."
Among the occurences that happened to him was an incident when he was lighting the tree at Christmas and was thrown across the room.
Is This Hanged Man Real?
Urban Legend: The "hanging man" in a funhouse turns out to be the corpse of an outlaw. This one is supposedly true.
The Story: In December of 1976, a Universal Studios camera crew arrived at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California, to film an episode of the television action show, the Six Million Dollar Man. In preparing the set in a corner of the funhouse, a worker moved the "hanging man," causing one of this prop's arms to come off. Inside it was human bone. This was no mere prop; this was a dead guy!
The body was that of Elmer McCurdy, a young man who in 1911 had robbed a train of $46 and two jugs of whiskey in Oklahoma. He announced to the posse in pursuit of him that he would not be taken alive and the posse obliged by killing him in a shoot-out.
McCurdy's body became a sideshow attraction right after his embalming. It is claimed that the local undertaker though he had done such a wonderful job at restoring McCurdy that he let the towns folk see him for a nickel a piece. The nickels were dropped into the corpse's open mouth , later collected by the undertaker.
No one ever showed up to claim McCurdy's body, so, legend has it that undertaker kept him around to collect nickels for a few years after the embalming. Carnival promoters wanted to buy the stiff, but the undertaker turned them down. He didn't want to lose his most steady form of income.
In 1915 two men showed up, claiming that McCurdy was their long lost brother. They took McCurdy away, supposedly to give him a decent burial in the family plot. In actuality, the long lost McCurdy "brothers" were carnival promoters. It was a scam to get the body that they had wanted for years. They exhibited McCurdy throughout Texas under the same title that the undertaker had given him -- "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up."
It seems that McCurdy's body popped up everywhere after that, in places such as an amusement park near Mount Rushmore, lying in an open casket in a Los Angeles wax museum, and in a few low-budget films. Before the Six Million Dollar Man crew discovered this prop to be a corpse, McCurdy had been hanging in a Long Beach funhouse for four years.
In April 1977, the much-traveled Elmer McCurdy was laid to final rest in Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma. To make sure the corpse would not make its way back to the entertainment world, the state medical examiner ordered two cubic yards of cement poured over the coffin before the grave was closed. McCurdy hasn't been seen hanging around amusement parks since.
Whether all this is true or not, we don't know. Was there ever an amusement park in Long Beach, California called the Nu-Pike Amusement Park? This tale is just one of those that we'll never know the truth of.
The Story: In December of 1976, a Universal Studios camera crew arrived at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California, to film an episode of the television action show, the Six Million Dollar Man. In preparing the set in a corner of the funhouse, a worker moved the "hanging man," causing one of this prop's arms to come off. Inside it was human bone. This was no mere prop; this was a dead guy!
The body was that of Elmer McCurdy, a young man who in 1911 had robbed a train of $46 and two jugs of whiskey in Oklahoma. He announced to the posse in pursuit of him that he would not be taken alive and the posse obliged by killing him in a shoot-out.
McCurdy's body became a sideshow attraction right after his embalming. It is claimed that the local undertaker though he had done such a wonderful job at restoring McCurdy that he let the towns folk see him for a nickel a piece. The nickels were dropped into the corpse's open mouth , later collected by the undertaker.
No one ever showed up to claim McCurdy's body, so, legend has it that undertaker kept him around to collect nickels for a few years after the embalming. Carnival promoters wanted to buy the stiff, but the undertaker turned them down. He didn't want to lose his most steady form of income.
In 1915 two men showed up, claiming that McCurdy was their long lost brother. They took McCurdy away, supposedly to give him a decent burial in the family plot. In actuality, the long lost McCurdy "brothers" were carnival promoters. It was a scam to get the body that they had wanted for years. They exhibited McCurdy throughout Texas under the same title that the undertaker had given him -- "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up."
It seems that McCurdy's body popped up everywhere after that, in places such as an amusement park near Mount Rushmore, lying in an open casket in a Los Angeles wax museum, and in a few low-budget films. Before the Six Million Dollar Man crew discovered this prop to be a corpse, McCurdy had been hanging in a Long Beach funhouse for four years.
In April 1977, the much-traveled Elmer McCurdy was laid to final rest in Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma. To make sure the corpse would not make its way back to the entertainment world, the state medical examiner ordered two cubic yards of cement poured over the coffin before the grave was closed. McCurdy hasn't been seen hanging around amusement parks since.
Whether all this is true or not, we don't know. Was there ever an amusement park in Long Beach, California called the Nu-Pike Amusement Park? This tale is just one of those that we'll never know the truth of.
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