13: Lady Bear Killer! PEI legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
13: Lady Bear Killer! PEI legends and Lore series
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"They have tales ." Oh yes they do ! P.E. Islanders love to share tales and there is no shortage of yarns both short and tall to tell. The history of this tiny island is replete with strange occurrences and each seems to spawn one or more explanations to account for them. Ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night are commonplace in this lore. The stranger the actual events the more detailed the often supernatural story around it. Some of these tales go back centuries. Loss and gain, treasure, triumph, disaster, birth, life and death all feature prominently. Not many who live here doubt the existence of spirits and ' haunts' , nor the places they can be found. Forerunners, omens of all kinds, even Satan himself often show up in these accounts.
I have lived here too long to dismiss all these tales as fiction, nor the beliefs that they encompass. I know too many perfectly sober honest people who have had ' strange ' experiences to doubt the veracity of what they say happened.
This series contains a variety of such tales I gleaned from several Island folklore books, old newspaper articles, a few first-person accounts and even an on-line site or two. None are original to me and I certainly wish to thank all those who gathered the stories. I have tried to place the caches in the communities and, if possible, on or close to the exact sites of the described events. For some of these stories you would NOT find me at the exact site late at night. Not a chance. I hope you enjoy both the story and the going to where it happened !
# 13 Lady Bear Killer :
Excerpt : " Bear Killed by Lot 11 Woman " July 8 / 1869
" Female Bravery - Mrs. Edward Finnen, ( Mary Kilbride that was) killed a bear a few days ago. Hearing a noise among the sheep, Mrs. Finnen went out. and seeing Bruin attacking the dog, she took up an axe and dispatched him at once. This courageous deed has caused a good deal of excitement in Lot 11, and on many a day Mrs. Finnen, as she deserves, be considered a heroine among her neighbours.
CO Note : The source for this one included a detailed map and I am confident this cache is placed within a few meters of the event.
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