Skeptophilia

The oral tradition presents anthropologists and historians with a difficult, sometimes insurmountable, problem; given that by definition its...

One of the most terrifying legends to come out of the Algonquian tribes of northeastern North America is about a creature called the Wendigo...

Many indigenous tribes of eastern and central North America have legends about a catastrophic explosion in mid-air in the distant past. ...

It will come as no great surprise to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that I have a bit of an obsession with considering what the world was ...

When I lived in Olympia, Washington, I knew a woman who was a professional spinner and weaver.  She made beautiful wearable items as well as...

Ready for a convoluted story? Today's journey is about the twistiest trip through mythology, fakery, and pseudohistory I have ever seen,...

I was chatting with a friend about mystical claims a few days ago, and the subject of Carlos Castaneda came up.  He'd heard of Castaneda...

An online acquaintance of mine made an interesting statement a couple of days ago. "The Europeans didn't just bring exploitation an...

The classic account of the origins of Native Americans is that during the last Ice Age, the seas were lower, and what is now the floor of th...

I've always had a fascination for body art.  I got my first tattoo about 15 years ago, a pair of Celtic dogs on my back.  In Celtic myth...