Posts tagged “legends”

  1. 1. The Hunger Spirit Like many children of the 1980s, I first encountered the wendigo in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark when Alvin Schwartz recounts the tale of a Canadian hunting guide lured away from his campsite. His companion searches for him, but finds only the guide’s tracks in the snow. The footprints are normal at first, but soon further and further apart as if the guide were being pulled along by something much…

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  2. Last month: the goldfinch. The hoopoe is twice-blessed, fortunate in both its English name (hoopoe) and its Latin one: upupa epops. Sometimes people call it the common hoopoe, but there is nothing common about this bird. Here’s a bunch of them striking various poses:

    What I like about the hoopoe is the way it seems to have used other species for inspiration when styling itself: there are shades of the zebra in its…

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  3. There’s a tale folks tell in these parts, where the dark water of what used to be known as the Pacific meets the steel stumps and gnarls of what used to be Lesser Los Angeles, of the days when the Jen lived among the men and women of the earth. The Enemy is dead now, or so they say; though there’s some of those left what still claim you can espy Her if you look…

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