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A new study from Brazil reveals that microplastics might enter the human brain through the nose, with unknown impact on brain function.

For the first time, researchers have found microplastics in the brain.
The latest study, published on Sept. 16 in JAMA, identifies microplastics in the olfactory bulb—the region of the brain located above the nose and responsible for our sense of smell. This discovery raises new concerns that these tiny particles might be slipping past the brain’s protective barriers and enter deeper brain regions, potentially harming brain health and neurological function.
“Our analysis of olfactory bulbs from deceased patients in São Paulo confirmed the presence of microplastics,” physician and principal investigator Thais Mauad told The Epoch Times. This suggests a potential route for these particles to enter the brain.

Mauad also highlighted the uncertainty surrounding the health effects of these findings. “We still don’t know the consequences,” she said, noting that animal studies suggest potential neurotoxicity and links to neurodegenerative diseases.
While microplastics have been found in various body tissues, including the lungs, gut, liver, placenta, testicles, and bloodstream, research on their health risks is still in its early stages. More studies are needed to understand the potential health impacts.
Brain Plastic From Everyday Items
The tiny plastic particles found in the human brain’s olfactory bulbs are often present in everyday items like food packaging and clothing. Given the widespread presence of these particles in the air, Mauad and the researchers proposed that people may be getting microplastics in their brains by breathing them in through the nose, similar to the way certain air pollution particles enter the brain.
Plastic does not break down completely; it turns into smaller pieces over time, contaminating the air, food, and water.

Mauad said that people are exposed to more plastics when indoors.
“We are massively exposed to microplastics,” she said. “We breathe in more indoors than outdoors.”
The researchers examined the brains of 15 deceased individuals, aged 33 to 100 years, and found microplastics in the olfactory bulbs of eight of them. The most common plastic found was polypropylene, making up nearly 44 percent of the samples. Polypropylene is used in items like food containers, straws, and some clothing fibers. Other plastics found included:

• Nylon/polyamide: Used in clothing, carpets, and industrial products.
  
• Polyethylene: Found in plastic bags, bottles, and containers.
  
• Polyethylene vinyl acetate (EVA): Used in flexible packaging and some footwear.
  

The microplastics measured between 5.5 and 26.4 micrometers—much smaller than very fine dust. To put this in perspective, dividing the width of a human hair into 13 segments is about the size of the smallest microplastics found.
Slipping Past the Brain’s Barrier
There is a small passage in the nose that allows olfactory nerves to cross from the nose to the brain, said Mauad, who is a professor of medicine at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo.
She suspects that the microplastics could enter the brain using the same route. This direct pathway may allow plastic particles to enter the brain without passing through the blood-brain barrier, which acts as a protective shield to prevent the brain from harmful substances.
The microplastic particles may be able to interact with the olfactory nerves through this tunnel, she said.
Animal studies have shown that microplastics can affect brain areas involved in sensory processing and memory.
The nose-to-brain pathways have been observed with carbon air pollution particles, suggesting microplastics might do the same. Some animal studies indicate that microplastics could potentially cross the blood-brain barrier and affect various brain areas.
Health Implications Beyond Microplastics
The plastic problem is not only the microplastics, Mauad said. It’s also all the additives that are in the plastic. These additives, used to give properties like color and heat resistance, can be harmful. Some are carcinogenic or act as endocrine disruptors and can be released when plastics are heated, such as in the microwave.
Furthermore, “the presence of non-digestible microplastic particles with additives might provoke reactions,” particularly in a developing brain, she added.
In addition, previous research has linked fine particulate matter in the air to brain issues such as dementia, with some diseases like Parkinson’s potentially beginning with nasal symptoms. Both fine particulate matter and microplastics have shown potential to negatively impact brain development in experiments, according to the study.
To minimize exposure to microplastics, Mauad recommends:

• Limiting use of plastics: Reduce the use of plastic containers and packaging, especially for food and beverages.
  
• Choosing natural fibers: Opt for clothing and textiles made from natural materials rather than synthetic fibers.
  
• Avoid heating plastics: Avoid microwaving food in plastic containers or using plastic wrap in the microwave.
  

In some research along the way I kept coming across a lot of legends and deep superstitions involving mirrors, and them being tied to the spirit world. I even had a wise ol' mystic tell me once to remove all the mirrors, and any reflective surfaces from my bedroom. He told me that we are most vulnerable to the spirit world when we are asleep, and that mirrors were a way for spirits and demons to gain access to us. I thought this sounded crazy at first, but the more I learned the more I started to question some of this folklore. There is a ton of lore on mirrors being evil, and being used in magick.

Mirrors 

In folklore, a mirror is a doorway or portal through which spirits, including ghosts and demons can gain access to the physical world where demonic infestations and hauntings occur.

In prehistory, any shiny surface was regarded as a spirit doorway and used to summon spirits into the world. They also are used for seeing visions of the future.

Much of the folklore about mirrors is negative. They are viewed by some as “soul stealers” with the power to suck souls out from bodies. In the Greek myth of Narcissus, he sees his own reflection in water and falls in love with it, staring hopelessly until he dies.

In some Christian beliefs, the Devil and Demons can enter through mirrors to attack people.

There are also numerous beliefs about mirrors and the dead. In many folklores, when a person dies, all the mirrors in a house should be turned over because if the soul sees itself in a mirror, it will not rest or can become a vampire. Corpses seeing themselves in mirrors will also draw bad luck upon the household. In some cultural beliefs, where corpses are laid out in homes, people still believe that souls linger about the body until burial.

Another folk belief is if a person sees his or her own reflection in a room where someone has died, it is an omen of their own death. Mirrors also should be covered in sick rooms in the belief that when the soul is weakened it is more vulnerable to possession during illness.

In other folklore, mirrors are believed to reflect the soul and must be guarded lest the soul be lost. These fears carry over into superstitious customs, such as covering the mirrors in a house after death to prevent the souls of the living from being carried off by the ghost of the newly departed through a mirror.

In some Russian folklore, mirrors are considered the invention of the Devil because they have the power to draw souls from bodies. Similarly, mirrors and in some places of the world all shiny surfaces, must be covered in a house after a death to prevent the soul of the living from being carried off by the ghost of the newly dead. Mirrors are covered in case one sees the corpse looking over one’s shoulder.

In an old Persian spell, ghosts may be seen in a mirror by standing in front of it and combing the hair without thinking, speaking or moving.

In then folklore of the American Ozark, the appearance of a distant friend in a mirror means he or she will soon die.

The famous folklore that breaking a mirror means seven years of bad luck but also heralds a death in the family or household. For example, if a child breaks a mirror, one of the children in the house will die within the year.

If a home is plagued with unpleasant spirit activity, the mirror in the bedrooms should never be placed at the foot or head of a bed. To do is is considered a negative influence for a person to be able to see himself or herself from any angle in a mirror while in bed. Mirrors should also never reflect into each other as this creates an unstable psychic space. A folk remedy says a mirror should be placed so that it faces outward toward a door or window. The reasoning being when the unquiet spirit looks in a window or attempts to cross a door threshold, it will see its own reflection and be scared away. Mirrors can also be closed as portals by rubbing the edges of them or washing the surfaces in holy water.


"Mirror demon"

Mirrors are also tools used in Divination and Magic. In divination, mirrors train the inner eye to perceive the unseen. Throughout history, mirror gazing has been used for prophecy, aid with healing, find lost objects and people and even to identify or find thieves and criminals.

The power of mirrors—or any reflective surface—to reveal what is hidden has been used since ancient times. Gazing upon any shining surface is one of the oldest forms of Scrying (a method of divination practiced by the early Egyptians, Arabs, the Magi of Persia, Greeks, and Romans). Magic mirrors are mentioned by numerous ancient authors, among them Apuleius, Saint Augustine, Pausanias, and Spartianus. According to Pausanias, divination for healing was best done with a mirror attached to a string . The string was dangled into water and the diviner ascertained whether or not a sick person would heal.

In ancient Greece, the witches of Thessaly reputedly wrote their oracles in human blood upon mirrors. Pythagoras was said to have a magic mirror that he held up to the Moon to see the future in it. Romans skilled in mirror reading were called specularii.

In the late Middle Ages, Catherine de Medicis reputedly had a magic mirror that enabled her to see the future for herself and for France. Pére Cotton, the confessor to King Henri IV of France, had a magic mirror that revealed to him any plots against the king.

In Christian folklore, mirrors enable demons to make themselves known. St. Patrick declared that Christians who said they could see Demons in mirrors would be expelled from the church until they repented.

In Vodoun, a magical mirror is called a minore. A minore is made of highly polished metal and is consecrated for the purpose of seeing visions in divination. Only a priest or priestess may use a minore.

For Magic, both flat mirrors and concave mirrors are used in magic. Other shiny and reflective surfaces work as well like crystal balls, good size crystals and bowls of water or ink. Franz Bardon taught precise instructions for making magical mirrors that would be “loaded” or empowered with the help of the elements, the Akasha, light and fluid condensers. The result of such a charged magic mirror should be stored wrapped in silk to protect its energies from contamination.

Mirrors are also used in Scrying which is accomplished by the astral and mental powers developed by the magician and not specifically the mirror. The mirror serves only as an aid for focusing such powers.

Visualising a person in a magical mirror enables contact. The scryer can then go to the astral plane to communicate with the dead. The living can be contacted through a mirror as well with the scryer visualizes the person intensely until they seem drawn out of the mirror.

The magic mirror can be used as a tool for investigating the past, present, and future. A mirror helps the magician transcend time to see events which is one of the most difficult aspects of mirror work.

The medieval magician Albertus Magnus recorded a formula for making a magic mirror: Buy a looking glass and inscribe upon it “S. Solam S. Tattler S. Echogordner Gematur.” Next, bury it at a Crossroads during an uneven hour and on the third day, go to the spot at the same hour and dig it up—but do not be the first person to gaze into the mirror. In fact, said magnus, it is best to let a dog or a cat take the first look.

The Aztecs used a mirror like surfaces to keep witches away. A bowl of water with a knife in it was placed in the entrances of homes. A witch looking into it would see her soul pierced by the knife and flee.






Cheers, to the next time you look in a mirror. Maybe, just maybe, there's someone looking back.

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Today we have exploding news in the Middle East which is nothing new, but this is like straight out of a dystopian sci-thriller movie.

"A Hezbollah official who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that the new brand of handheld pagers used by the group first heated up, then exploded."

Hezbollah official: the explosions of Hezbollah members' pagers were caused by their lithium batteries exploding, says Israel is behind the incident.

Why pagers and not cell phones? See below highlighted text.


A wave of exploding pagers in Lebanon and Syria kills at least 8, including members of Hezbollah



Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon



NY Times

There are conflicting reports/signs regarding the modus operandi behind the explosion.

Some reports claim the lithium batteries of the pager overheated, and that a few of those targeted got rid of them before they detonated. On other videos/other reports, messages are received just before the explosion, which may be part of the detonating mechanism or just a way to make sure targets are hit, plus the report about a newer version of the pager being the one detonating, points to more of a physical breach.

I'm not an expert on exploding Lithium batteries, but from dozens of videos over the past 4 years we've all seen, the explosion/sparking is always followed by a fire. I don't see any fires in these Lebanon videos. Just a pop/bang, severe lacerations or worse, off with the arms or legs. Seems more like a tiny drop of plastic explosive. I don't think it was a hack; more of an implant with a digital trigger. Some group had to of intercepted that shipment of pagers.

Dozens of videos being shared on social media seem to show the pagers ring, then explode.
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The Fourth Reich

On a wing and a prayer

OK, you are going to have to bear with me a moment. We are dealing with complex situations, a lot of history, and linguistic manipulation to get to the zinger moment. By the end of this article, I expect the reader to understand — if not agree — with my thesis.

The first thing we need to do is clarify what “fascism” is. Fascism, or corporatism as Mussolini called it, is basically the same as socialism in most aspects. The difference is that corporations control the governments in fascism, and the governments own all the corporations in socialism. Down here in the trenches, there’s very little difference in the misery index. Mostly it’s a matter of who gets all the perks and benefits — corporate officers or government officials.

In essence, under fascism governments are the enforcement arm for corporate power, and in socialism corporations do the arm twisting for government power. Either way, we humans are squeezed for economic value to service a self-selected band of brigands, the color of whose coats matters little in the final analysis.

The prolific author Joseph P. Farrell has pointed out many times that at the end of World War 2, the German government surrendered, but not the Nazi party. Another great author, Peter Levenda, has done yeoman’s work ferretting out the ratlines that helped top Nazis escape Europe. In addition, the US (Operation Paper Clip) and USSR (Operation Osoaviakhim) grabbed prize Nazis for their respective space programs, and other “research” and intelligence operations.

The result is that we have a global network of ideologically aligned individuals and organizations leveraging their network to affect global events and change. A zoo of Quasi-Governmental Organizations (QGOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) effectively dictate policies and socio-economic initiatives toward a singular goal: world governance (not government).

It is my contention that most if not all of these QGOs and NGOs are created and run by fascist ideologues looking to create a global pyramidal power structure with fully isolated, even invisible corporate overlords running the show at the pyramidion.

It is no secret that fleeing Nazis had access to vast amounts of wealth, generated either by controlling interests in megacorps like IG Farben, or looted from national and personal treasuries and vaults of conquered peoples. Just one minor example is the gold dumped in Lake Halstatt, Austria.

The looted wealth, and the intricate network of financial ties to corporations around the world has enabled the fascists to slowly dominate global power structures, either through enormous holding companies, like BlackRock and Vanguard, or by direct lobbying of national governments through the QGO/NGO networks, to enact enabling legislation that favors the networks and channels wealth to and through them. This is achieved by a proliferation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), where the flow of wealth is primarily from the public to the private entities, but allow politicians to benefit financially from the legislation they enact to create the PPPs.

The goal is to establish a rigid pyramid of command and control, wherein nations are subsumed into 18 regional “economic unions”. The 18 unions are then placed under the control of global organizations specialized in specific areas, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Health Organization (WHO), World Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Standards Organization (ISO), and so on. The UN itself is a QGO, which coordinates funding and operations for the other QGOs/NGOs, functioning as the legal framework for the whole mess.

Examples of regional economic and trade organizations include North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA), the European Economic Community (EEC), the European Trade Organization (ETO), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). These groups effect policies at the national and regional level on behalf of the global organizations, by recommending/pressuring individual nations to adopt standardized policy packages that are attached to various financial rewards.

National governments are thus the enforcement arm for the global corporate power structure, and the touch point where it all meets us regular folks. If the pyramidion wants us to buy Electric Vehicles (EVs), thus forcing us humans to financially support an entire controlled industrial sector (mining, refining, construction, distribution, fueling), then suddenly global governments are mandating EVs and scrambling to carve out a specialty in the market supply chain (batteries, assembly, charging stations), so that they can claim to have “created jobs” for hoi polloi.

The NGOs effect change in the social-cultural sphere. They manipulate educational systems, public affairs groups, think tanks, media channels, and similar outlets in order to alter, coordinate and align public opinion, generating “consensus” in the process. Efforts such as DEI, ESG, Climate Change, Energy Transition, Green New Deal, and so forth are promulgated and controlled through the NGOs — essentially the agitprop arm of global governance.

If the pyramidion wants us to believe the global climate is an existential threat, then the NGOs set up educational programs, public outreach centers, media messaging, rallies, and so forth to make us believe it is a “grassroots” movement. The QGOs force governments to support the NGOs via outrageous sums of grants and aid, so that hoi polloi fund their own brainwashing and captivity.

Governments either directly fund the NGOs, or they pay a membership tax to the UN, which then distributes the booty through its structure. In any case, the missions and visions of the QGOs and NGOs sound very high-minded and humanitarian, but they are little more than a sophisticated money-laundering scheme, with governments stealing your productivity (taxes) and distributing the wealth according to the dictates of the pyramidion.

All of this is funded by two primary mechanisms: corporate investment and public aid.

The latter is easy: governments are manipulated by internal agencies controlled by the fascist NGOs and network operatives to offer aid packages, grants, loan guarantees, government programs and procurement, and similar benefits to the QGOs and NGOs. That much is fairly straightforward and clearly visible in the public sphere.


The more complex operation is looting major corporations to fund the global operations. This takes the form of investment blackmail — adopt these policies or we cut off your funding — and by directed corporate spending. Here we touch on the thing that has so many people confused and wondering what’s going on.

I will use the entertainment industry, since that is the one I am most familiar with, but similar tactics are used throughout the global economy.

Why would a major corporate entity, let’s say Disney, buy up major franchises like LucasFilm and Marvel at incredibly tumid prices, and then proceed to trash them by producing copious amounts of content that no one wants or cares about? And why the huge. bloated budgets for products that are clearly substandard by every metric?


Let’s say I set up a “Woak” company to supply CGI effects for feature films, using investment from some Woak major holding company and guaranteed loans from some Woak banking interest. I then secure contracts with a Woak production house via my Woak network contacts, charging outrageous sums of money for rather pedestrian products that many people can do better at home these days.

Next, I subcontract various Woak “suppliers” in third-world countries, also at bloated sums, for goods and services related to my “products,” and those subcontractors are all part of the same Woak network of companies, and operate in more “flexible” legal environments.

The production house produces a feature film costing $300 million, but only using $20 million in actual goods and services. Add another $300 million for Marketing & Advertising (M&A), which really only uses maybe $10 million in actual goods and services. The net result is $570 million that didn’t pay for anything. Furthermore, the feature film was so horrible and unwatchable that no one paid to see it, so now the entire $600 million is written off as a “legitimate” tax loss, while down at the granular level, the money is shunted into QGOs/NGOs via payroll fraud, “donations” and similar methods.


Even if only $100 million of the original $600 million makes it to the organizational level, it’s “free” money that didn’t need to be allocated in public view, it’s all a tax loss at some level, and it has no strings attached — money laundering at a scale most of us can’t imagine.

Now do this 100 times per year per megacorp and we’re talking some serous fun money. Similar scams are run at the public level, say buying outrageously priced spacecraft with cost-plus contracts that are a decade overdue and billions over budget, and don’t work as advertised.

Some of this “mad money” gets funnelled back into political pockets via foundations and campaign donations, thus heading off too much public scrutiny, and buying willing political fingers poised on the legislative approval button.


Now, what does all this look like, in a metaphorical sort of way?

Let’s suppose we have a pyramid with four corners, as they will do. Each corner touches the apex of another pyramid beneath it, and so on. We thus have a progression of 1, 4, 16, 64, 256, 1024, and so on. If the pyramidion at the top issues an edict, it has reached 1,024 board rooms in a matter of minutes, by email or phone call, with each player/pyramid only being responsible for contacting and controlling the four beneath it. That’s 262,144 controlled entities within 10 iterations of the pyramidion, controlled by executive, financial and/or coercive power to carry out whatever policy the pyramidion wishes.

That’s how the world actually operates, and this system is being implemented with increasing speed and rigidity almost on a daily basis. If the pyramidion sits on top of four others labelled Academic, Cultural, Financial, and Industrial, and each of them sits on four of their own, then it’s easy to see not only the power and control structure, but also how they are intertwined with each other through various relationships and reporting systems — the corners of layer 1 touch the apices of layer 2, whose sides align with each other and whose corners touch the apices of layer 3, and so on.


Because all of the entities in our pile of pyramids is a corporate entity, then by definition we have a fascist global governance system. If the pyramidion wants everyone to get vaccinated, then it can marshal academic, industrial, financial, and cultural mechanisms to enact and enforce the edict — multi-spectrum command and control. And the vast amounts of public funds governments are forced to pay for vaccines? Well, that all gets funnelled into the money laundering network.

Anyone who thinks a certain political candidate, party or movement is going to change things has not pondered the depth and breadth of the problem.

The problem is systemic and endemic, and cannot be stopped or altered with a vote or a donation or a rally. The individual must fully extract himself from the entire system and form an alternative system that attracts others to form an ecosystem.


The Nazis are just one of many groups that espoused fascism, and most of the groups involved are completely unknown and invisible to the general public. When was the last time you heard or thought about Mussolini’s Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF)? You probably never heard about it in school, nor even thought to look it up.

Fascism has been taking over the world since at least AD 1666, with the charter of the British East India Company — think of all the national flags that incorporate red/white horizontal stripes. It has seen many iterations, set-backs and victories since then. It has become enshrined in the legal systems of the world and enforced by legions of mindless goons looking for a steady paycheck and cushy retirement plan, with health and dental benefits, of course.

If you play the game, you get a reasonable lifestyle, relative security, and a bland pointless existence shuffling paper from one side of the desk to the other.


If, on the other hand, you fight the system, it comes down on you from all sides, activating all levels of the pyramid structure against you, applying multi-spectrum pressure until it reaches your breaking point and you succumb to it. Your job disappears, your bank cuts you off, your social media accounts are locked, and your friends and family shun you.

As Orwell pointed out, it isn’t enough that Big Brother disposes of you, you must first embrace and love Big Brother, breaking both your will and your mind in the process.

Is there a way out? Of course, but it involves forming an alternative society that also encompasses the academic, cultural, financial, and industrial aspects of civilization. It has taken the fascists centuries to build their system, through generational indoctrination and incremental progress. The vast majority of humans don’t see beyond the next paycheck, and that is by design.

The elimination of generational wealth and private property means most people don’t have the ability to focus on anything more than subsistence, and the coordinated destruction of the family prevents cohesive relationships outside of direct pyramid control. That is how feudal systems are perpetuated.


As with all pyramidal structures, though, there is a point where the sheer weight of its complexity and component parts exceeds the capacity of the structure to support it. We are reaching that point now in our global civilization. The complexity of the system that supports the entire fascist structure is exceeding its ability to keep all the parts aligned. Perhaps this is the impetus behind AI, since mere humans can’t react fast enough to deal with all the variables?

Thus the question we are faced with is, what do we have to fill the vacuum in the wake of the collapse?

Our movie today is the stunning and brilliant 1984 (1984), featuring the deft direction of Michael Radford, and career-defining performances by John Hurt and Richard Burton, and a haunting score by Dominic Muldowney and the Eurythmics. This is by far the greatest adaptation of the novel, and a film whose quality reminds us of just how far the entertainment industry has declined.

These are mythical creatures not crypto.

"Pukwudgies"


Inside The Legend Of The Pukwudgies, The Cunning Cryptids Of Native American Myth
By Marco Margaritoff | Edited By John Kuroski
Published June 14, 2024
Updated June 17, 2024


While Pukwudgies are said to be good-hearted if treated kindly, they can become lethal when slighted — and they can use their magical powers to kill.
Pukwudgie
New York Public Library
Pukwudgies are often described as similar to gnomes or fairies, like those depicted in Arthur Rackham’s The Little People’s Market (1915).

Almost all cultures throughout history have their own cryptids, elusive beings whose existence has never been proven. In Wampanoag legend, that creature is the Pukwudgie.

Tiny and magical, Pukwudgies could be compared to gnomes or fairies of European folklore. Due to their penchant for teasing humans with harmless pranks, they appear rather charming compared to other mythical monsters. However, the knee-high pests also have a deadly side.

Pukwudgies have allegedly been known to lure victims into dangerous situations — or even right off of cliffs. Some versions of the legend claim that even their stare is lethal and that they can shape-shift into forest predators and make people forget things.

While not a single Pukwudgie has ever been captured for documentation, and many people have only heard of them because of their place in Harry Potter lore, the enduring tales about these mischievous cryptids continue to enchant believers to this day.

The Mysterious History Of The Pukwudgie
The word Pukwudgie, also spelled Puk-Wudjie or Bagwajinin, reportedly translates to “person of the wilderness.” Stories about these magical creatures are still told throughout New England and the Great Lakes regions today, but the legend seemingly originated with the Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

“Standing no more than three feet tall, the face of the pukwudgies have facial features similar to those of the Wampanoag people, however their ears, fingers, and noses are greatly enlarged and their skin is grey and smooth,” wrote Theresa Bane in the Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology.



The nature of these trickster entities is as disparate as the spelling of their name, as Indigenous folklore warns that Pukwudgies can be dangerous — if treated with disrespect. Those treated kindly are purportedly good-natured, while those who are slighted are said to be deadly.

Benevolent Pukwudgies may merely engage in harmless trickery with unsuspecting humans, and according to legend, they even helped Native Americans with manual labor on occasion. Their evil counterparts, however, are said to steal from children, dangerously sabotage people, and lure their enemies to death by leading them off of cliffs.

Bane wrote that they even cast magical “balls of light to lure victims into the woods where they are then killed or kidnapped.” According to Indigenous lore, the Pukwudgie’s primary nemesis was Maushop, the Wampanoag folk hero who purportedly created Nantucket.

In fact, some versions of the legend even claim Pukwudgies were behind Maushop’s death.




The Magical Powers Of This Wampanoag Cryptid
Pukwudgies are often described as forest creatures that stand knee-high and have a sweet smell. Their powers vary from tale to tale. Some stories say they turn invisible, shoot poisonous darts, kidnap children, or shape-shift into a creature that looks like a porcupine from the back and a half-human, half-troll from the front.

Wampanoag mythology suggests that Pukwudgies were initially friendly with humans, but they became jealous when the Wampanoag people started idolizing Maushop, a mythical giant. Feeling slighted, the creatures began playing mischievous pranks on humans.

Wampanoag Man In The Forest
Library of Congress
According to Wampanoag legend, Pukwudgies are forest sprites that cause mischief ranging from harmless pranks to deadly attacks. This 1857 engraving depicts a Wampanoag man standing in the woods — where he may have been surrounded by Pukwudgies.

Members of the Wampanoag tribe started complaining about the Pukwudgies’ tricks, so Maushop exiled them by shaking them until they were confused and tossing them across America. Unfortunately, his plan backfired. The Pukwudgies returned with a vengeance — and their pranks soon turned deadly. As the story goes, they began kidnapping children, burning villages, and harming Wampanoag people.

Instead of dealing with them himself, Maushop sent his five sons to get rid of the Pukwudgies again. However, the creatures lured the boys into deep grass and killed them with their magical arrows. Another version of the legend claims that they killed Maushop, too.

Tales of the Pukwudgie aren’t limited to Native American lore, however.

Pukwudgie Sightings Throughout History
In 2023, a woman named Mary reportedly emailed the blog New England Folklore to report a Pukwudgie sighting. Mary claimed she was walking a dog between 4 and 5 a.m. when she saw a humanoid creature with black, matted fur and glowing eyes. When she told her co-workers about it the next day, they informed her it was probably a Pukwudgie.

More than 30 years prior to Mary’s Pukwudgie sighting, a man named Bill Russo reportedly saw a similar being while walking his own dog in 1990. The creature allegedly tried to lure him into the dark woods, but he managed to escape.

There are also rumors that Pukwudgies terrorize humans in Massachusetts’ Freetown State Forest. Several unexplainable deaths in recent years have allegedly been blamed on Pukwudgies luring people off of a towering cliff in the forest known as Assonet Ledge. The area is less than 20 miles from Hockomock Swamp, which some legends claim is the place where Pukwudgies originated.



Tales of the Pukwudgie aren’t limited to New England, however. According to the Indiana Historical Society, the Lenape tribe has their own legends about the tiny cryptids. They reportedly lurk in forests in the state and play harmless pranks.

In 1927, a 10-year-old Indiana boy named Paul Startzman claimed that he was walking alone in a park when a two-foot-tall man with blonde hair appeared in front of him. Another resident named Eloise once recalled a group of small people with high-pitched voices who spoke in a strange language approaching her in a park.

Whether or not these stories are true is up for debate, but it’s undeniable that Pukwudgies have a grip on people’s imaginations — and on pop culture.

The Pukwudgie In Popular Culture
The legend of the Pukwudgie made its first appearance outside of folklore in 1855, when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “The Song of Hiawatha.” The epic chronicles the life of a fictional Ojibwe warrior and the tragic conclusion of his love for a Dakota woman.

The poem also relates the death of Hiawatha’s friend Kwasind — and his encounter with Pukwudgies. Longfellow wrote, “But the mischievous Puk-Wudjies, / They the envious Little People, / They the fairies and the pygmies, / Plotted and conspired against him.”

Longfellow went on to explain that the the only things that could kill Kwasind were the “seed-cone of the pine-tree” and the “blue cone of the fir-tree.” The Pukwudgies knew this secret, so they gathered up piles of the cones and “lay in wait for Kwasind.” Then, they ambushed and murdered him.


These deadly cryptids appear in much more recent pop culture, as well. J.K. Rowling named one of the four houses of Ilvermorny (Hogwarts’ American counterpart) Pukwudgie. The creatures even live at the school and act as “providers of security and maintenance.”

Rowling’s Pukwudgies are clearly not as evil — or as elusive — as the cryptids said to have caused countless deaths throughout history. Still, they enchant modern readers just as they captivated the minds of Wampanoag storytellers thousands of years ago.

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Facts so far:

Gunman set up a hole or two from where Trump was (and would soon be approaching him).

Gunman set up one or two backpacks on the fence with ceramic tile in them (Poor man's barrier).

Gunman had a gopro so that he could broadcast it.

Gunman had a POS AK Style rifle with a scope. From the picture, kind of looked like a Saiga or an aftermarket regular rifle stock instead of the standard AK stock (could have been 5.45x39).

Secret Service goes ahead to survey the area and sees this guy setting up and sliding his muzzle barrel through the fence and they open fire on him. 

Suspect runs but there is a witness who takes a photo of his vehicle / tag and calls the police. Police catch him in the next county.


So, how did he know Trump would be there and how the course was set-up in order to get in front of him to set-up?

I remember 20 years ago talking to DEA agents telling me about the hit men the Cartels provide for the distribution centers. Chicago was a big center for the north distribution of drugs and other serious crimes..

The title says it all... These are some very talented individuals IMO..