“Tall Man or fsti-capcaki is described as resembling a human being but of immense stature, ten feet or more in height, and covered with gray hair. He customarily carries a great wooden club made from a branch broken from a tree Tall Man is reported to have a penetrating odor, like the smell of a stagnant muddy
Pond. Willie said that his father had seen tall Man on one occasion when he (Willie) was very small.
When Daddy saw it he told Mamma and said that it looked like he had made his club from a limb of one of the trees on our place. Mamma said “If that is so, that tree he broke the limb from will soon be dead!” We all doubted this, but surely enough, the tree died. Where the branches had been there were big holes. It is in holes like this that Seminole women bury stillborn babies. I used to hear a baby crying at one of these trees near our house. There were little bones in there…”
This book titled Oklahoma Seminoles : medicines, magic, and religion published in 1984 and written by James Howard is part of the University of Oklahoma series of books on the civilization of the American Indians. This book is amazing. I found it going down another rabbit hole. I literally read it all today while snuggling a sick chihuahua names Howard. There were ceremonies, a how to, to get that witch or demon off your back. A real look at their culture and beliefs I highly recommend this one and I am already try to procure the other two as I type!
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