Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — QUEER INDIAN TRADITIONS. [ARTICLE]

QUEER INDIAN TRADITIONS.

A Ball of Fire That Flays Constantly Above an Old Grave. 1 The Buffalo Express tells of an Indian’s grave along the shore of the Oneida Lake where at times a weird and supernatural light makes its appearance: - Itris described” as a'Uairof fire about the size of a largo orange, qnd sways to and fro in the air about thirty feet from the ground, confining its irregular movements within a space about one hundred feet square. People havn'attempted"To”go riear enough to solve, the mystery, but it would suddenly disappear before reaching it. A very peculiar story is told by the _neighbora-near thc#pot- -They triaim that many years ago the locality was part of an Indian reservation. A man by the name of Belknap frequently dreamed that there was a crock in the Indian cemetery containing immense treasures, and that if he went there at the hour when graveyards yawn he could secut’3 it. These dreams were repeated so often that they had a strong affect, and he went there with a pick afld shovel according to instructions, but he failed to turn round three times when he found the crock, as the dream “ttifScted. He went to pick it up, hut was Btunned by a flash of lightning, and the crock disappeared. Since that time the spot has been haunted by this mysterious light