Post by Okwes on Dec 28, 2007 11:07:43 GMT -5
Fires in the North: Legends and Folklore of the Northern Lights - Makah
The Makah Indians of Washington State thought the lights were fires in the
Far North, over which a tribe of dwarfs, half the length of a canoe paddle
and so strong they caught whales with their hands, boiled blubber.
Folklore is from Legends of the Northern Lights, by Dorothy Jean Ray, The
ALASKA SPORTSMAN, April 1958, reprinted in AURORA BOREALIS The Amazing
Northern Lights, by S.I. Akasofu, Alaska Geographic, Volume 6, Number 2,
1979
The Makah Indians of Washington State thought the lights were fires in the
Far North, over which a tribe of dwarfs, half the length of a canoe paddle
and so strong they caught whales with their hands, boiled blubber.
Folklore is from Legends of the Northern Lights, by Dorothy Jean Ray, The
ALASKA SPORTSMAN, April 1958, reprinted in AURORA BOREALIS The Amazing
Northern Lights, by S.I. Akasofu, Alaska Geographic, Volume 6, Number 2,
1979