Ghosts, Spirits And The Afterlife In Native American Indian Mythology And Folklore from G.W. Mullins

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Native American history is filled with stories about animals, creation of the Earth and man, life lessons and of course ghosts...

Ghosts, spirits, and the “walking dead” were often known to pay visits to their family and those left behind. Many of these stories revolved around lost loves and attempts to reclaim the person taken from them. Other stories spun tales of revenge and payback for those who wronged them. In any case death was looked at as a doorway to the afterlife and not to be feared.

The Native American belief in spirit and ghost visitation can be found in a speech made in 1854, by Chief Seattle:

"And when the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among white men shall have become a myth, these shores shall swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children shall think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway or in the silence of the woods, they will not be alone. … the dead are not powerless. Dead - I say? There is no death. Only a change of worlds."" - Chief Seattle, 1854

While many cultures passed their history through the written word, most Native American tribes had no written language. The Cherokees were one of the leaders in recording their lifestyles and traditions. As in true tribal fashion, most information was passed through stories and in song to the beat of a drum. Many of these stories are included within the pages of this book.

You will be given many opportunities to relive the past cultures of many tribes and their beliefs in ghosts, spirits and the afterlife. You will be presented with stories of individuals who transcended the plane of death to interact with the living and other spirits who have remained earthbound and troubled who have to work through a life lesson to successfully move on. As is traditional, these stories are here for you to share and pass on to the next generation.

Included in this collection are the stories: Ghost of the White Deer, The Story of a Poor Man, The Resuscitation of the only Daughter, The Spirit Bride, Heavy Collar and the Ghost Woman, Bluejay finds a Wife, Two Ghostly Lovers, Origin of the Medicine Man, The Medicine Grizzly Bear, A Little Brave and the Medicine Woman, The Man Who Was Afraid of Nothing, The Ghosts' Buffalo, The Land of the Dead, Blue Jay Visits Ghost Town, The Spirit Land, The Skin Shifting Old Woman, and many, more.