Iroquois Supernatural: Talking Animals and Medicine People

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. Recounts stories of shapeshifting witches, giant flying heads, enchanted masks, ethereal lights, talking animals, Little People, spirit-choirs, potent curses, and haunted hills, roads, and battlefields . Includes accounts of miraculous healings by shamans and medicine people such as Mad Bear and Ted Williams . Shows how these traditions can help one see the richness of the world and help those who have lost the chants of their own ancestors With a rich history reaching back more than one thousand years, the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy--the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Seneca, and the Tuscarora--are considered to be the most avid storytellers on earth with a collection of tales so vast it would dwarf those of any other society. This mystical culture's supernatural tradition and treasury of tales and beliefs is largely unknown and their most powerful sacred sites unrecognized. Assembling the lore and beliefs of this guarded spiritual legacy, Michael Bastine and Mason Winfield share the stories they have collected of both historic and contemporary encounters with beings and places of Iroquois legend: shapeshifting witches, strange forest creatures, ethereal lights, vampire zombies, cursed areas, dark magicians, talking animals, enchanted masks, and haunted hills, roads, and battlefields as well as accounts of miraculous healings by medicine people such as Mad Bear and Ted Williams.

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Iroquois Supernatural the perfect vehicle to transport readers to this shaded and forgotten land to study its treasures of wisdom. * Midwest Book Review, October 2011 *
...this book strikes a pleasant mix between scholarly research and earnest fascination with these stories of super natural happenings in the New York state area. Its clear that all the research done was a labor of love on the part of both authors...Iroquois Supernatural is a solid introduction to the lore with cool campfire stories mixed in, intelligent but not pedantic. * Kestril Trueseeker, Witches and Pagans, October 2012 *

Author Bio

Michael Bastine is an Algonquin healer, elder, and former student of famous Tuscarora medicine man Wallace "Mad Bear" Anderson and Tuscarora healer Ted Williams. He lives in South Wales, New York. Mason Winfield is a supernatural historian and founder of Haunted History Ghost Walks, Inc. The author of 9 books, including Supernatural Saratoga, he lives in East Aurora, New York.