Piotr:
> As for North America, have you never heard of Sasquatches, Bigfeet >and
>Florida Swamp Apes?? Many of them belong to the Palefaces' urban >folklore,
>but at least the Sasquatch seems to be an authentic if >legendary giant of
>the Halkomelem. Glen will be better informed about >Sasquatches, I suppose.
Um, actually, no. Actually they are called "Bigfoot" in both singular and
plural. :) There's an "Ogopogo" in British Columbia but that's not a
humanoid but rather a kind of Loch Ness monster. In Manitoba, the only
"humanoid" legends I can think of our those little elves of Icelandic myth.
There is a sizable Icelandic community in Gimli.
There are some humanoids that walk down Main Street here in Winnipeg, but
they're just the local townsfolk, drunk on everything from Pinesol to
battery acid. My roommate mentioned a native "Windigo" legend, supposedly an
evil spirit or something. Sounds like something I ate.
At any rate, I doubt that these myths are in any way connectable with a time
way back when, when humans were living next to Neanderthal populations.
These are just myths common to many human populations, the
anthropomorphisation of animal spirits and things of that kind.
- gLeN
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