Giant Skeleton in A Stone Tomb, Found Standing up Surrounded by Sacrifiiced Attendants

Giant Skeleton in A Stone Tomb, Found Standing up Surrounded by Sacrificed Attendants

San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 1908
SKELETONS OF GIANTS FOUND IN ST. LOUIS
Workman Unearth Bones of Extinct Race Believed to Have Been Mound Builders
     Human bones beleived to have been those of mound builders were fund at second and St. Clair avenue, East St. Louis, recently, by workman, who were digging an excavation for a hay warehouse.
   one skeleton was walled up in a stone tomb eight feet high.  When a heavy slab of rock was taken  from the top the skeleton, standing upright, could be see within.
  It was that of a man apparently 7 feet tall.  An effort was made to remove the skeleton intact,but when other stoneswere removed it fell to pieces.
    Buried under 5 feet of earth, near the base of this ancient tomb were the skeletons of other men all above normal height.  They were in a circle about the tomb where their chieftan had been walled up.  As the ground was cleared away these skeletons also fell apart.  Three skulls were intact.

Ancient England Druid's Mound Entombing a Large Skeleton is Discovered in New York State

Ancient England Druid's Mound Entombing a Large Skeleton is Discovered in New York State

Burial mound is surrounded by a ditch an earthen wall, much like is found in the Ohio Valley.  This same type of burial mound was common in England with the people that constructed Stonehenge.

History of Cattaraugus County New York  1879

    About two miles south of the village of Rutledge, in the town of Connewango, on lot No. 45, at a point about sixty rods east of Connewango Creek and near the residence of Norman E. Cowen, there was discovered by the first pioneers of this section a sepulcher mound, nearly circular in form, and having an entire circumference of 170 feet.  The height of the mound was about 12 feet.  Mr Cheney spoke of this work as "having the appearance of being constructed with the ditch outside of the mound as in Druid Barrows.

   Within the mound there were discovered 9 human skeletons, which had been buried in a sitting posture and at regular intervals of space, in the form of a circle, and facing towards a common center.  There were some slight appearance that the framework had enclosed the dead at the time of their internment.  The skeletons were so far decayed as to crumble upon exposure to the atmosphere, but were all of very large size.  An osfemur (the largest found here) was 28 inches in length."

Cherokee Indian Legend of Fairies or Little People

Now and Long Ago-A History of the Marion County Area, 1969

  

   Another God invoked in the hunting songs is Tsu´l’kalû´, or “Slanting Eyes,” a giant hunter who lives in one of the great mountains of the Blue Ridge and owns all the game. Others are the Little Men, probably the two Thunder boys; the Little People, the fairies who live in the rock cliffs; and even the De´tsata, a diminutive sprite who holds the place of our Puck. One unwritten formula, which could not be obtained correctly by dictation, was addressed to the “Red-Headed Woman, whose hair hangs down to the ground.”