(05-28-2016, 06:05 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote:(05-28-2016, 06:00 PM)Ninurta Wrote: You would call this same "spirit" (actually a creature) "Bigfoot" today.
Yes, I would. Because it had the ability to cloak itself... making it look like a "spirit".
I have another thread here about that, if you're interested.
I don't know about "cloaking" itself - the one I saw could no more cloak itself than I could... but with that being said, I've been remarkably good at hiding in the brush over the years, no magic necessary. It became second nature for a while. On one occasion, I walked up on a girl I knew in "cover" that consisted of 3" tall grass (what I would consider "wide open space"), and scared the living daylights out of her, since she never saw me until I spoke. I didn't mean to sneak up on her, and thought she saw me, but that's just the way it happened - "cloaking" was just second nature - no magic, mystery, or technology involved. it's more a matter of moving in the world as if you were just another part of it, like a leaf swaying in the wind. Nobody notices a leaf swaying in the breeze, so long as it's moving with the breeze and not contrary to it.
I stand corrected about the length of the track I mentioned, however. I found the passage again, and it was measured at 14 inches, not 14 1/2. Here is a quote:
Quote:Septr. 23. 1774
We marched along the [River New] to the mouth of Elk River. The N[ew] River widned [MS. torn] or more, in its general breadth. joind the troops encamp'd in the Forks, discovered by Our [MS. torn] three indian tracts up a branch a little way from the last Camp. One of the tracts remarkably long when [me]asured being 14 inches.
P.327, "A Documentary History of Dunmore's War 1774", Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1905, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
It IS found in Fleming's Orderly Book, but he was a Colonel rather than a Captain, so I was wrong about that, too. A link to the book: A Documentary History of Dunmore's War 1774
Another link, directly to page 327
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’