FLYING HEAD
Iroquois Demon
Also known as Big Head, Great Head, Kanontsistóntie's, Konearaunehneh, Kunenhrayenhnenh
Beware the low-flying ravenous head
Not a nice thing to be heading in your direction. A flying head with flaming eyes, hair streaming in the slipstream — and huge fangs for munching up livestock. Worst of all, the head was forever hungry as he had no body to fill.
An old woman roasting chestnuts caused his downfall. “Aha — hot chestnuts,” said the Flying Head to itself, “they smell delicious.” And being so gapingly greedy he bypassed the tiddly little things the woman was baking and gulped down the great big ones — along with the fire they were roasting in.
Big mistake. They were not large chestnuts, or even baked potatoes. They were hearthstones — containing all the heat of the fire. It was all too much — the Flying Head internally combusted and was never seen again. And that’s an old Iroquois chestnut.
Flying Head Facts and Figures
Name: Flying Head
Pronunciation: Coming soon
Alternative names: Big Head, Great Head, Kanontsistóntie's, Konearaunehneh, Kunenhrayenhnenh
Gender: Male
Type: Demon
Area or people: Iroquois aka Haudenosaunee
Celebration or Feast Day: Unknown at present
Role: Unknown at present
Good/Evil Rating: Unknown at present
Popularity index: 8581
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Article last revised on May 19, 2019 by Rowan Allen.
Editors: Peter J. Allen, Chas Saunders
References: Coming soon.