Earthquakes and Thunderbirds
Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 1st, 2005
It is amazing what Thunderbird folklore may tell us, says Ruth Ludwin, a University of Washington scientist. Her research has found that Thunderbird and other cryptid stories and traditions "could relate to a large Seattle fault earthquake around A.D. 900 and specific eyewitness accounts linked to a mammoth 1700 earthquake and tsunami in the Cascadia subduction zone."
A UW article has summarized her paper.
Mark A. Hall’s 2004 book Thunderbirds: America’s Living Legends of Giant Birds discusses large cryptid avian tales from Native peoples that these scientists might wish to re-examine.
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