11-17-2014, 12:00 AM
I know several. One place I camp is on an island, it is a point near a large natural pass near a huge body of water (somewhere in the Atlantic - wink wink) where several different currents coalesce, and dolphins play or hunt a few feet form the shore. Seabirds travel from all over the Americas to roost on nearby islands and sand bars.
I always have crazy dreams there.
I used to live on the border of Mexico in Big Bend country - this is all mostly Chihuahuan desert. I will go ahead and reveal an old Pueblo folk tale about two mountain peaks. One peak is a large ominous mountain just across the Rio Grande in Mexico (not sure what the actual name of the mountain is) there is a cross on top, this is across the border from the small town Presidio, Texas, and just outside the town of Ojinaga in Mexico. About 30 miles away in Texas is a mountain range called the Chinati, Chinati Peak is the highest point in the area (maybe about 5 k above sea level.
There has been reports of a mysterious light that flies from Chinati Peak in Texas to that weird mountain in Mexico. The Pueblo said it was a spirit spider, and it would come down and scare the children if they did not behave! Later the Christians came in and claimed that it was the devil, so they put that cross up there and now have a regular prayer ceremony on certain nights where they go up there and light candles along the path to the top.
Someone else reported in the area seeing a damned light 'jumping', from mesa to mesa and peak to peak - all of them, even one I used to hike up!
If you ever have hiked to mountain tops, especially ones in the desert, you may find that sometimes the urge to leap up from them and fly, or jump to another peak is almost overwhelming...if you were capable of doing so, wouldn't you?
This is got me wondering if there is some online publication about that area's folk tales and legends. Almost everyone already knows about the Marfa Lights.
I really miss that area and read a lot of Castaneda when I lived there. It's not like Arizona or New Mexico, there are less tourists and it is more remote. If there are brujos in the U.S. they are there or nowhere!
I always have crazy dreams there.
I used to live on the border of Mexico in Big Bend country - this is all mostly Chihuahuan desert. I will go ahead and reveal an old Pueblo folk tale about two mountain peaks. One peak is a large ominous mountain just across the Rio Grande in Mexico (not sure what the actual name of the mountain is) there is a cross on top, this is across the border from the small town Presidio, Texas, and just outside the town of Ojinaga in Mexico. About 30 miles away in Texas is a mountain range called the Chinati, Chinati Peak is the highest point in the area (maybe about 5 k above sea level.
There has been reports of a mysterious light that flies from Chinati Peak in Texas to that weird mountain in Mexico. The Pueblo said it was a spirit spider, and it would come down and scare the children if they did not behave! Later the Christians came in and claimed that it was the devil, so they put that cross up there and now have a regular prayer ceremony on certain nights where they go up there and light candles along the path to the top.
Someone else reported in the area seeing a damned light 'jumping', from mesa to mesa and peak to peak - all of them, even one I used to hike up!
If you ever have hiked to mountain tops, especially ones in the desert, you may find that sometimes the urge to leap up from them and fly, or jump to another peak is almost overwhelming...if you were capable of doing so, wouldn't you?
This is got me wondering if there is some online publication about that area's folk tales and legends. Almost everyone already knows about the Marfa Lights.
I really miss that area and read a lot of Castaneda when I lived there. It's not like Arizona or New Mexico, there are less tourists and it is more remote. If there are brujos in the U.S. they are there or nowhere!