Water Babies Legend

Water babies are mysterious and dangerous water spirits from the folklore of california and other western native american water babies are said to inhabit springs and sometimes ponds or streams.

Water babies legend. The urban legend of this area states that one year a terrible famine overtook the land. The paiute themselves say that the water babies are the result of a great serpent who one day emerged to feed on the baby of a mother who was washing clothes. The water babies were ill formed or premature babies that were thrown into the water by the paiute tribe. As legend has it the infants angry spirits have taken hold of the lake over the past centuries.

Many people have reported hearing the cries of an invisible baby or the laughter of ghostly children. The demonic serpent then took the form of the baby and began devouring the mother as well only stopping when it made a deal with the village shaman that it would be allowed to prowl the lake in exchange for letting the mother live. In native american culture there is a ghostly legend of the water babies. Their story tells of a native.

The native american water babies pocatello idaho massacre rocks. Two legends in particular are most commonly told by the locals. The water babies alludes to debates among biologists of its day satirising what kingsley had previously dubbed the great hippocampus question as the great hippopotamus test at various times the text refers to sir roderick murchison professor richard owen professor thomas henry huxley and mr. Utahs own water baby urban legend is different from idahos.

One of which is referred to as the legend of the water babies and begins with the american indian paiute tribe who were said to have thrown malformed and premature babies into the dark and murky waters to drown in an effort to keep the tribe strong keeping only the children who would grow to be capable and useful members of their tribe. Some say they were the spirits of babies that were drown by their parents who had no means to feed them and others say they are some sort of spirit that was never part of this realm. The tale it all depends on who you ask. Human infants although in some tribes they have fish tails or appear as reptilian beings that merely make cries.

It is an established fact that before the white man arrived at pyramid lake members of the paiute tribe threw ill formed or premature babies into the water. According to staff members of the pyramid lake paiute tribe museum and visitor center this urban legend began with a family vacation to the california coast.