I love this and the other stories like it. I hate to think how many stories like this languish in the basements of museums or died with the last person who remembered them. Thanks for helping to keep these stories alive.
I recall another fable I read about mosquitos, from India: All the animals held a conference to decide what to do about humans. The decision was almost unanimous: humans were a menace, and ought to be exterminated. Only the mosquito dissented: humans should be saved, because, as it said, 'they're so delicious'...
I've heard a few variants on this from across North America. Sometimes it's a witch who is killed, sometimes an ogrish or vampiric humanoid monster, and sometimes a giant mosquito or mosquitoes like in this version, but they all seem to end the same way, with the evil being reincarnating as the first swarm of modern mosquitoes. Seems to speak to some commonly held beliefs about the obnoxious little bugs that cross the continent, which is interesting. All that aside, nice retelling.
@@ComradeCorwin in this case, "better" is correct. Roads always existed, even if just as tow paths for canals and walking trails, but with the advent of macadam surfaces roads became able to handle higher speeds and this, between roads a and railroads tolerating increasingly fast speeds, the energy savings of canals were largely negated except where navigable by sea going vessels, often to the head of the tide, aka the top of the estuary, like London and such. In some areas transfer points to rail became more important than other factors and therefore New York, LA, Milwaukee, and Chicago as well as a number of other ports. You may not that Milwaukee and Chicago are both well inland but they still receive sea going vessels due to rivers and canals, with Chicago receiving traffic both via the Saint Lawrence Seaway as well as the Mississippi River as it is very near the divide between the two nations and the flow of the Chicago River was reversed to allow such traffic. Yeah, I am off on that I know a lot about such, with US factors largely learned when I was in grade school and Europe mostly while in or since college 😁
What a beautiful and terrifying story. I hope to tell this to the next generation some day. It is nice to fill our young minds with wonder and consideration.
Thank you for sharing! I was describing the story to my wife and she wondered if the battle with the monsters might have really happened and it was some form of extinct large bird or something like that… and the story has been remembered. What do you think? Either way a great way to spend a few minutes!
Do you think we should think this was thought to be factual, or thought to be symbolic, or just thought to be entertaining? I tend to doubt it was thought to be factual, but maybe I am naive in this regard.
I love this and the other stories like it. I hate to think how many stories like this languish in the basements of museums or died with the last person who remembered them. Thanks for helping to keep these stories alive.
Yeah that is an accurate description of the audacity of mosquitos
I recall another fable I read about mosquitos, from India:
All the animals held a conference to decide what to do about humans. The decision was almost unanimous: humans were a menace, and ought to be exterminated. Only the mosquito dissented: humans should be saved, because, as it said, 'they're so delicious'...
I've heard a few variants on this from across North America. Sometimes it's a witch who is killed, sometimes an ogrish or vampiric humanoid monster, and sometimes a giant mosquito or mosquitoes like in this version, but they all seem to end the same way, with the evil being reincarnating as the first swarm of modern mosquitoes. Seems to speak to some commonly held beliefs about the obnoxious little bugs that cross the continent, which is interesting.
All that aside, nice retelling.
Can you imagine running into two giant mosquitos? That would be terrifying.
Rivers are still highways, but much less since roads got better.
Love your tales & stories 😎
Better or more prevalent?
@@ComradeCorwin in this case, "better" is correct. Roads always existed, even if just as tow paths for canals and walking trails, but with the advent of macadam surfaces roads became able to handle higher speeds and this, between roads a and railroads tolerating increasingly fast speeds, the energy savings of canals were largely negated except where navigable by sea going vessels, often to the head of the tide, aka the top of the estuary, like London and such. In some areas transfer points to rail became more important than other factors and therefore New York, LA, Milwaukee, and Chicago as well as a number of other ports. You may not that Milwaukee and Chicago are both well inland but they still receive sea going vessels due to rivers and canals, with Chicago receiving traffic both via the Saint Lawrence Seaway as well as the Mississippi River as it is very near the divide between the two nations and the flow of the Chicago River was reversed to allow such traffic.
Yeah, I am off on that I know a lot about such, with US factors largely learned when I was in grade school and Europe mostly while in or since college 😁
Great story, thank you for sharing
2 giant mosquitos would be terrifying.
I love your misremembered stories. This is the best one yet.
What a beautiful and terrifying story. I hope to tell this to the next generation some day. It is nice to fill our young minds with wonder and consideration.
Thank you for this story, your voice and cadence is very pleasant and the story satisfying. I love these kind of beginning stories.
Thanks i have been following you for a year now 😊 i was really when you said your stopping but i was delighted when i found out you didn't quit
Very well told!!
Amazing story!
Wonderful voice too...
Beautiful vid tho man nice story🤙🏼
i am enjoying these three videos, are there any more stories?
Thank you for sharing!
The story seems modern & carries modern lessons.
The modernism is my own.
@@MalcolmPL
You did great & I thank you!
very cool story the one i remember is the tlingit version.
Interesting how they're described as looking like malformed herons. I wouldn't have thought of that.
That’s an addition, the version I know describes them spearing like herons but doesn’t give a visual.
I thought that the monsters were rapids or a waterfall at first
awesome
billions of tiny monsters. hubris will getcha every time.
nice
Huh! We're the feckin monsters.
More stories please
Not until winter.
Thank you for sharing! I was describing the story to my wife and she wondered if the battle with the monsters might have really happened and it was some form of extinct large bird or something like that… and the story has been remembered. What do you think? Either way a great way to spend a few minutes!
Probably not, As far as I know, the only terror birds to survive into the human era were down in Argentina.
I know on the bone eating rabbits video its not a rabbit porcupine will naw on bone even know their herbavores
Porcupines don’t live near my property.
A so maby yr right my friend 🤙🏼😀
Do you think we should think this was thought to be factual, or thought to be symbolic, or just thought to be entertaining? I tend to doubt it was thought to be factual, but maybe I am naive in this regard.
It's like Aesop, meant to entertain and give moral lessons. A mouse didn't really pull a thorn from a lion.
@@MalcolmPL Thanks.