Thunderbirds, Lightning Birds, and...Hyena Cowboys?

Fake Believe: Conspiracies, Cults & Cryptids

Stacie and Rachel have never been kicked by a Rockette, and somehow that is relevant to this week's episode. Stacie shares tales of the Thunderbird (not your daddy's Thunderbird), including its Native American origins. Then Rachel heads on over to South Africa to share the Nguni's (and others') beliefs around the Lightning Bird (not your daddy's Lightning Bird, either...but it might be your mom's).
That TikTok Account We Told You to Follow
mndiaye_97
Casual Geographic (his YouTube channel)
Music Notes
Fishing by Crowander
A Song of Wolves and Dragons by Xelementunign1 via Pixabay
Works Consulted
The Thunderbird of Native Americans – Legends of America
Thunderbird: a symbol of power, strength and nobility - Ecstatic Trance: Ritual Body Postures
Pterodactyls, gargoyles and thunderbirds reported in Pa.: Monsters of Pa.
Thunderbird (mythology)
Creepy Mysteries: Thunderbird of Illinois
How Heavy of a Weight Can Birds Lift? (Here's The Truth)
Legend or Lie? The Tombstone Thunderbird
Tombstone Epitaph - Tombstone's Flying Monster

The Uniqueness of Nguni Mediumistic Divination in Southern Africa
The Cape Nguni Witch Familiar As a Mediatory Construct
Bushmen as Mediators in Nguni Cosmology
Impundulu the Lightning Bird – Southern Africa Travel
Lightning Bird - Journals of a Botswana Safari Guide
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