[BGHater]

Shocking. /S

Hobbits? We've got a cave full

Could 'Hobbits' Have Lived As Recently As 200 Years Ago . . . Until We Killed Them? Folk Tales Support Radical Scientific View of Hominid

'Turney said that one of the team's next projects would be to investigate the island folklore, to see if there was any more scientific proof of the hobbits and how and when they became extinct.

He added that the islanders could not have made up their stories because they were giving detailed accounts before the discovery was made.

"They said Homo floresiensis were around until 200 years ago, when they stole a baby from the village. The villagers said their ancestors tossed hay and torches into a volcanic cave where the hominids lived and burned them all.

"We will go back and look for this cave by a village near the town of Bajawa."'

[BGHater]

Ping.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I’ve long suspected that the Hawaiian legend of the Menehana on Kauai sounded a bit suspicious. They just don’t fit the profile of “little people” legends elsewhere in the world.

While seen as “vaguely lucky”, the Menehana are not seen as magical, just as “little people over there”, which sounds more like a reference to another tribe, now extinct. Along with “vaguely lucky” there seems to be a “vague apprehension” about them as well.

I suspect that the Hawaiians also got around to exterminating them, if for no particular reason, then just general principles.

[SunkenCiv]

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