hi anyone know about dream catchers.i asked my son to buy me one and he came back with a huge one,,its beautifull.in cream and brown feathers.with gold beads.
what i do know.you hang them over the bed and the good dreams stay in the web..the bad dreams go thru the hles in the web..they were used by indians to put over babys cradles.i believer there very popular now..my dtr has one too..anyone have anymore info on them please...think ive put this in the right place ??love kath[sm=FIFangel.gif]
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my daughter used to have nightmares and wanted a dream catcher because they were pretty, and she doesn`t seem to have had a nightmare since
Do the colours affect anything? Do they assist in the dream at all?[sm=sleep.gif]
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ORIGINAL: angelrose
you hang them over the bed and the good dreams stay in the web..the bad dreams go thru the hles in the web..they were used by indians to put over babys cradles.i believer there very popular now..my dtr has one too..anyone have anymore info on them please...think ive put this in the right place ??love kath[sm=FIFangel.gif]
its the other way round 😉
Dreamcatchers are an authentic American Indian tradition, from the Ojibway (Chippewa) tribe. The people would tie sinew strands in a web around a small round or tear-shaped frame--in a somewhat similar pattern to how they tied webbing for Ojibway snowshoes--and hang this "dream-catcher" as a charm to protect sleeping children from nightmares. The legend is that the bad dreams will get caught in the web. Traditionally Native American dreamcatchers are small (only a few inches across) and made of bent wood and sinew string with a feather hanging from the netting, but wrapping the frame in leather is also pretty common, and today you'll often see them made with sturdier string meant to last longer. During the pan-Indian movement in the 60's and 70's, Ojibway dreamcatchers started to get popular in other Native American tribes, even those in disparate places like the Cherokee, Lakota, and Navajo. So dreamcatchers aren't traditional in most Indian cultures, per se, but they're sort of neo-traditional, like frybread. Today you see them hanging in lots of places other than a child's cradleboard or nursery, like the living room or your rearview mirror.
taken from this website http://www.native-languages.org/dreamcatchers.htm
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hi emma ,thanks for the reply,yes i did get it the wrong way round..the dream catcher my dtr has is yrs old.and is only small..but not original..will check the site out now thanks.love kath[sm=FIFangel.gif]
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no probs kath - if theres any more info you want just try typing something like "native dream catcher" into a search engine like google
em.x.