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Bigfoot is a human!

I find the thought or theory that native people made up stories to keep their future generations from making bad decisions interesting.

It makes sense to me. Which is why I never leave the house without wearing clean underwear.. and that other one.. with the flag pole.
 
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Native Americans near Mt. St. Helens used to warn the young ones in their villages that a huge tribe of tall hairy cannibals lived near the mountain.

Its my guess that this was an effort to keep people from settling too near the mountain for obvious reasons.
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AttorneyTom said:
I find the thought or theory that native people made up stories to keep their future generations from making bad decisions interesting.

It makes sense to me.
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It doesn't make sense to me. Why not tell them that the mountain periodically explodes and they will die? Why not show them the area and the visible physical evidence that the mountain does explode?

Why scare children with tales of hairy cannibals when you can just tell them about bears, cougars and wolves? Those real and dangerous animals just didn't scare kids?

Children, I don't want you to play baseball in the middle of the busy highway because giant bats will pop out of the pavement and carry you away to eat you.

Same thing. And it's somehow supposed to make sense to me?
 
re Native American folklore:
Native Americans are just people. Their heritage depends on oral rather than written tradition. Their superstitions are oriented around nature rather than an anthropomorphic superbeing. But they don't live in the forest any more than anyone else. Alcoholism and poverty are much higher than in the rest of the US population, particularly so among reservation residents, and their average income and educational level are lower. I would wager that one could obtain almost any story from them about bigfoot with the right inducements.....look at "Finding Bigfoot," which features predominantly white "working class" "storytellers".
 
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William Parcher said:
Why scare children with tales of hairy cannibals when you can just tell them about bears, cougars and wolves? Those real and dangerous animals just didn't scare kids?
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I suspect not enough, in some cases. If you live in a culture in which your bravery is judged by your ability to hunt those dangerous animals, then there will always be some kids who will test their limits before they're really ready - especially if doing so can impress the chicks. So you need something unequivocally your superior to be the monster that really keeps people away from someplace you don't want them to go. If that monster is bigger and stronger than any bear, smarter than you, and would love to rape you before it eats you, then that's quite a bit more to fearful than the other dangerous animals. Throw some quasi-shape-shifting-spirit-nonsense into the myth, and it's gonna have some staying power.
 
That is why it makes sense.. atleast to me. I wonder what native americans attributed things that actually regularly naturally occured such as geysers, avalanches, lightning, tornados, baseball size hail, earthquakes etc.. ?

It is an interesting culture !
 
Tell them that a 30ft tall bear lives there that eats people. No, that won't work because the skeptics in the village want you to prove it. Tell them Bigfoot and everyone stays away.

Great Indian Prank: Tell all the people in your encampment that you just saw a Bigfoot nearby. Nobody leaves their teepees and everyone starves to death within a few weeks.
 
Or... we build a totem with good ol' Sassy on it in his honor and he is like a brother and will not bother us.. so long as we stay away from that flowing lava mass ! A 30ft bear ? Hahahaaa !

Hmm.. if BF is a brother then BF is .. um.. human ! Nevermind..
 
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Perhaps the tendancy for humans to hallucinate dark humanoid figures has something to do with it. In Japan they have the night hag. In WA they had the hairy hermit cannibals.
 
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