Mysticism? Does It Exist In Bigfoot History?

[Teagle]

This message is geared specifically for Jan. However, I am aware that other readers and members of this board may be involved or may have been involved in bigfoot habituation scenarios. If you have been, then please feel free to add input.
Speaking from a "shaman's" point of view...Do the bigfoot believe in an afterlife? Do they have individual "healers" among their kind? When I get sick; I go to the doctor (or to a Chinese herbalist). Has it ever been known of the bigfoot taking an injured "young" to a healer amid their flock? Or if one were to be sick with any other illness? If a bigfoot baby is sick, what takes place?

[joep]

Jeff,

Read the book Clans of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel. Focus on Ayla who was adopted by a shaman. To me the story is mostly I see based on how the Bigfoot lives.

Rodney

[Jan]

Jeff,

Read the book Clans of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel. Focus on Ayla who was adopted by a shaman. To me the story is mostly I see based on how the Bigfoot lives.

Rodney

Another book that you may wish to read is There Time Has Come Neanderthal by: John Darnton. It is fiction for the most part but does not really deal with Neanderthal as much as it does with the bigfoot. Now to go back and answer Jeff's questions.
Yours,
Jan

[Jan]

This message is geared specifically for Jan. However, I am aware that other readers and members of this board may be involved or may have been involved in bigfoot habituation scenarios. If you have been, then please feel free to add input.
Speaking from a "shaman's" point of view...Do the bigfoot believe in an afterlife? Do they have individual "healers" among their kind? When I get sick; I go to the doctor (or to a Chinese herbalist). Has it ever been known of the bigfoot taking an injured "young" to a healer amid their flock? Or if one were to be sick with any other illness? If a bigfoot baby is sick, what takes place?

Yes they do believe in an afterlife. Yes they do have Healers and Holy men and woman that are like shamans. They take their sick to these individuals or the healers come to the sick. It depends on what they think or know is wrong with the sick baby as to what will be ministered as a cure. For instance they will use Willow Bark if the child is teething made into a paste and also given just as the bark for the child to chew upon. Willow bark has the same effect as aspirin. Snake root and unripe persimmons when they are in season are good for a tooth ache in an older child or adult. (I don't recommend eating an unripened persimmon, as it will numb your mouth all right if you can keep from gaging and spitting all over the place.) They will use other things in nature for other cures. In this respect they are very much like the Native American with their cures and herbal remedies.
Yours,
Jan

[Teagle]

Hi Rodney,

Good to see you here. I still have your books on the Tennessee Melungeons. I can't get over how much those peoples favor the Russian "Khwit" - Zana's son. Very strange the "Melungeons" - knowone knows from where they originated.

[Tom Shirley]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon

http://www.melungeons.com/articles/jan2003.htm