Sleeping Positions Among Wild People
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 17th, 2011
Dmitri Bayanov passes along this reference to an example of a Sasquatch sleeping in the position discussed earlier here:
“Using binoculars at a distance of less than 200 yards, he found himself looking at two sasquatches sleeping out in the open, with their backs to the sky and their knees and elbows drawn in under their bodies.” (John Green, Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us, 1978, p. 425).
“With regards to your message about ‘planking’ among wild men,” writes French cryptozoologist Michel Raynal, “I had reported several cases of such a behaviour:
- Peter of Hanover (a historical wild boy) [a classic feral human, see here and here ~ Loren]
- ksy-gyik according to Khakhlov (1914)
- almas sighted by Damdin in Mongolia (1960): see drawing and reference in my old article here:
- so-called “osa de Cornellana” (she-bear from Cornellana, Spain) from another of my old article here:
In my opinion, it is a primitive behaviour to sleep, and a method to keep the internal heat.”
The legend from Cornellana, Spain, linked to this sculpture concerns an alleged female bear nursing a human child. Could it be a wild person instead? Below are other images of this art. It hardly seems to be representing a bear, at all.
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Perhaps this is old news among some parents out there? For me though I had never actually noticed the infant sleeping behavior noted in this thread. I would be very interested if others have personally observed the sleeping position / posture described.
I have always considered the reports of sasquatch and especially Russian sasquatch like creatures; (almas, almasti etc), as sleeping in a Garbhāsana (face down) posture with hands / arms drawn up under the chin, knees drawn up under the abdomen, butt raised dorsally as being strange, unnatural, and probably a matter of incomplete or mistaken observation. I was wrong. See Ref below.
I just returned home from a week long visit with my son and his family, who are the proud parents of an exceptionally bright (and large for his age, currently 28 lbs. @ eight months), boy. While there I repeatedly observed my Grandson’s sleeping posture which often ended up in his assuming that exact sleeping posture described above. Hmmm?…
Ref: Zoological Features; Jeanne Marie Koffman, 1958 Caucasus expedition