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Stop the hunting of Wolves!
The BC government has announced its intention to kill over 180 wolves in a last-ditch effort to protect endangered caribou herds. The move has been called scientifically unsound, as it fails to consider the real causes of the herd’s decline, as well as whether or not the small number of remaining animals are capable of recovering in the wild. Voices of reason say they can not. Click on the image above for more information. Please consider signing the petition at pacificwild.org
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Why the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Could Be Genocide
An increase in tanker traffic could be the death of the Coast Salish people, not an oil spill. A review of the Coast Salish and Nuu-chah-nulth testimony presented to the National Energy Board of Canada. In 2018, Canada’s Federal Court … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelia Douglas, bilge pump, bunkering, Burnaby, Burrard Inlet, coal, Coal Tyee, Coast Salish, Federal Court of Appeal, First Nations history, First Nations knowledge, First Nations oral history, fishing, Folklore, genocide, Georgia Strait, Governor Douglas, indigenous, Isabella Ross, Juan de Fuca Strait, Justin Trudeau, Kwantlen, Liberal Government, Lummi, Lyackson, Maanulth, Musquem, Nanaimo, NDP, Nuu-chah-nulth, oil industry, oil spill, Olympic Peninsula, oral history, pipeline, Puget Sound, Romeo Saganash, ruling, Salish Sea, seattle, shipping, Shxw'owhamel, Snuneymuxw, Squamish, Sto:lo Collective, Sto:lo Tribal Council, Stz'uminus, Suquamish, Swinomish, testimony, TMX, transmountain, Transmountain Pipeline, Tsartlip, Tsawout, Tsleil-Waututh, Tudeau Government, Tulalip, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Victoria, Washington State, West Coast, yellow jacket movement, yellow vest, yellow vest movement
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The Changeling
Changeling. The widespread belief that fairies or other malevolent spiritual forces might secretly substitute one infant for another is amply represented in Celtic oral tradition. Irish corpán sídhe, síodhbhradh, síofra; Scottish Gaelic tàcharan, ùmaidh; Manx lhiannoo shee; Welsh plentyn a … Continue reading
Posted in Bestiary, Ghosts
Tagged Celtic, Changeling, child, Devil, Fairies, Fairy, Folklore, infant, Ireland, Katherine Briggs, Lady Wilde, Legend, stolen, tradition
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The Bat in Celtic Folklore
In the land of the Celts – from lonely moors to haunted castles –the bat has long been associated with witches, ghosts, and other tragic beings of the night… In the 1949 Encyclopedia of Superstitions by Edwin and Mona Radford … Continue reading
The Banshee: Ghost of the Celts
The Banshee’s arguably the most famous ghost of them all, and probably the least understood. “When the Banshee calls she sings the spirit home. In some houses still a soft low music is heard at death.” – George Henderson 1911 … Continue reading
Posted in Ghosts
Tagged Apparition, Banshee, Banshee Howl, Banshee Meaning, Banshee Wail, Canada, Death, Eleanor Hull, Fairy, Fairytale, Folklore, Ghost, Ghost Servant, Haunting, Irish, James MacKillop, Katherine Briggs, Lady Wilde, Myth, Omen, Poltergeist, Scottish, spell, United States, W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Watcher at Ford
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The Spider in Celtic Myth
According to lore, the spider in Celtic myth was a beneficial being. It appeared in the old texts suddenly, emerging from some now-forgotten lost older oral tradition, creepy-crawling onto the pages of recorded folklore from out of nowhere. One of … Continue reading