Re: question about the little people and migration Daven daven@priest.com Tue Mar 26 15:29:12 2002 Red Turtle wrote,*br*: in one of my discussions with some of the Native *br*: friends here, i heard something interesting. he *br*: sayd that some of the Cherokee have the Little *br*: People as part of their worship/belief system. *p*Completely different systems of belief. From my understanding (and it could be false) is that the "Little People" of the Cherokee is not the "Little People (read faries)" of the Celts.*p*The Celtic set are Elves the Shide, the faries that Victorian England would go crazy over and so on. Sometimes benign, sometimes malevolent, sometimes just surley, from the Fir Darig, to the Pooka to the leprechaun to the cluricane and many others in between, they were an entire race of magickal beings.*p*The Little People of the Cherokee were more like the little people of the Osage, or demented and malevolant spirits who died without honor or paint and did not move on to the West and their final rest in the "summerlands" or "happy hunting grounds". They are angry, hateful, spiteful, lost and willfull and contrary. They don't pass up an opportunity to hurt the living and they can't be redeemed from their state.*p*At least, I think this is what your friend meant, but I really don't know about Cherokee spirituality. You may want to have him clarify with you what he means by "Little People".*p*Daven question about the little people and migration Red Turtle 1071 Tue - Mar 26 - 3:22pm 207.65.28.2