Ebu Gogo

Ebu Gogo With one related to Homo floresiensis, was discovered in 2003 on the eponymous Indonesian island of Flores, published in the scientific literature and the press legendary people group is described. Their existence is based on reports from residents of the island. Accordingly, they should be extinct in the early 19th century.

Locals reported to the Australian researcher Richard Roberts in October 2004, after the discovery of Homo floresiensis, from the so-called Ebu Gogo, who had not yet made their ancestors: " The Ebu Gogo were tiny like little children, except in the face completely hairy and had long arms and a round belly drum. They constantly murmured in an incomprehensible language, but also parroted what we told them. " Ebu Gogo The last of these was to disappear shortly before the colonization of the island by the Dutch. The name Ebu Gogo means as much as, grandmother who eats anything '.

While there are in the oral tradition deviations, but have the reports on multiple matches. Thus, from the experiments reported Ua, take up with the repellent behaving neighbors contact by hinstellte them cooked food, they also participated in itself. Ebu Gogo stole But the further parts of their livestock and crops. But only when she stole a baby, so the residents reported Gregory Forth from the University of Alberta, have you driven them into a cave and kindled a fire by inflamed palm fibers that had previously paid to the small people as clothing. Gregory Forth suspected that the extermination of Ebu Gogo took place 1750-1810.

However, this tradition dates back over the Ua and the Ebu Gogo by the neighboring Stevenage, which also reported that the Ua had penetrated two or three hundred years ago in their territory, which was, however, never inhabited by the rodent. Since there are numerous reports on the destruction of crop pests in Indonesia - in most cases animals - are caused by fire, the destruction of giants is distributed in this way also, measures genesis Marie Sodikoff given the unique story of the destruction of little crop thieves an increased credibility with. This must not be a one-time act of destruction, but the highlights in a long-lasting competitive situation. In addition, the Nage arranged the little people not the animal kingdom, but to the people, what language is reflected by classifiers, in which the preference to Eko ga'e was given, so the human in front of the animal.

Reports on the Ebu Gogo appear particularly since the time of the discovery of Homo floresiensis, which made many scientists wary. Whether the English scientist William Marsden with his description as tall people, which he described in 1783 as " Orang Googoo ", possibly meant the same people group, can no longer be determined. Later, it was believed that the reports were imaginatively embellished reports of macaques. About little people continue circulating reports, how about the " orang pendek ". Act extent to reports by anthropologists to such reports, is still largely unknown.

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