Talk:Nightmarchers

Huaka'i po'

• This seems to be written for a younger audience, but via Google Books, Betty Dunford, The Hawaiians of Old:"Night Marchesr. Hawaiians believed ghosts of those who died long ago came back to earth. They came back and marched on certain nights of the moon, along certain old paths. Mostly those paths led to old heiau. The ghosts carried toraches. The ghosts chanted. Sometimes Hawaiians heard drums and flutes with the marchers. Hawaiians believed that people who saw the marchers might be killed. If they lay down, they might be safe. People might also be safe if a ghost they saw was their relative. Some people believeHawaiian ghosts still march in Hawai'i today." Bucketsofg 15:04, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
• Also, see here, where we they appear in a Hawaiian dictionary: in Hawaian it is huaka'i po. Bucketsofg 15:07, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Yep, according to that dictionary huaka'i trip, voyage, parade, pō night, so huaka'i pō = night marchers [spirits said to roam at night]. I suggest rename to huakai po, then to huaka'i pō and then maybe someone in Hawaii will add the okina instead of the apostrophe to represent the glottal stop. That way someone searching for Nightmarchers will still get it as will someone leaving off the diacritics. It kind of reminds me a little of the NZ trad of spirits of the recently dead travelling to the far northern tip of NZ, whence they dive into the sea and head north to the spirit world/Hawaiki Kahuroa 16:19, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Go ahead and rename--that seems to be the best course. Bucketsofg 17:43, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Haunted Hawaiian Nights

The first thing you will hear is drums in the distant, then you will smell a foul and musky odor, and you will hear a conch shell being blown, for fair warning to get out of the way, and you will see torches getting brighter and brighter as they get closer. Your best chance is to have an ancestor that recognizes you, they will call out,"Na'u!" which means mine. But if you are in the night marchers bloodline no one in the procession can harm you. No matter what you build in their path they go straight through it.The night marchers are the vangaurd for a sacred chief or chiefess who unusually have a high station in life.Under the kapu system, required commoners to never cast their eyes upon them, doing so will invite swift death.Even the greatest conqueror and king, Kamehameha was required to strip naked and crawl to his wife Keopuolani. She was sacred. The nightmarchers do not also serve the ali'i they serve the gods-Akua and Aumakua. So they are more forgiving ad less offended at breaches of protocol. There harbingers are enormous gusts of wind that can tear down branches from the largest trees, sudden storms, or fierce downpours whose drops feels like knives.

This appears to have been taken from Haunted Hawaiian Nights, although I am unsure if it was copied in its entirety. While the book is copyrighted, the source material itself may not be if it appears in other collections. We need more information about this content before adding it back in. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 08:45, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Pictures and Other Information

I agree that there should be picture up on this page. Perhaps pictures of nightmarchers by various artists. There could even be pictures of people who have claimed to see nightmarchers, or are well known experts. Thee could also be information about people who are well known that have to do with nightmarchers. NRB.12345 (talk) 09:50, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

@NRB.12345 I think that is a really good idea! It would be very interesting to see what they look like. 75.85.4.28 (talk) 02:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

NRB.12345 (talk) 09:50, 4 October 2009 (UTC)