January 13, 2008

Bigfoot in Native American Folklore

To the Seminole, he's "Esti Capcaki" or the "Tall Man." The Lakota know him as "Chiye Tanka" - "Big Elder Brother." Yet he's "Tso Apittse" or the "Giant Cannibal" to the Shoshone and the "Evil God of the Woods" (Skookum) in Chinook Indian lore.

Native American legends paint Bigfoot as both a friend and a foe, from a benign, mystical "Spirit Hidden by the Woods" to a bringer of "Bad Luck" and "Disaster."

Pangea Institute's cryptozoologist, Scott Marlowe, talked with us about his research into Indian Bigfoot myth, legend and folklore for his second installment of his planned trilogy "Bigfoot in Art History" in the upcoming sequel to the book "Elementum Bestia" named one of the top 10 cryptozoology books of 2007.