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the mahnomen pioneer (mahnomen, minn.) 1910-current — strange footprints

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1922-04-21
Location: mahnomen, minnesota, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the mahnomen pioneer (mahnomen, minn.) 1910-current · 1922-04-21 · page 3
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1922-04-21 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “strange footprints”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... toward this dreadful power. Every strange footprint which the Indians saw they put down to the Guallchu. When the glaciers halved in the mountains and flung their ice upon the waters of the upland lakes the Indians said, “It is the Guallchu who is groaning In the mountains.” And so they became a race of devil worshipers. It Is probable that most devil worship has had a beginning of this kind. Here we have a people cleanly and kindly, whose imagina tions became warped by the contem plation of the spirit of evil. The savage as a rule is not In any way Imaginative—he needs something from the outside to make him so—the darkness, great ...

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