In some American Indian Tribes, a story has been passed down from generation to generation, stating that long ago there was a Shaman living among a tribe, she woke one morning with only good dreams. As she looked up she saw a spider’s wed. In the web she saw dew drops and as she looked closer at the dew she saw what appeared to be her bad dreams floating in the dew. As the dew dried her bad dreams disappeared. As she prayed, it was reveled to her that she should make catchers of bad dreams for all of the tribe to share, insuring that only good and good dreams would come to the tribe.
Fashioned after the spider wed she saw that morning, she created the first dreamcatcher. The Shaman took pieces of pliable twigs and fashioned them into circles, representing the circular flow of life. In these circles she used sinew, the thin lining located on the inside of an animals hide, along with small beads, she wove a web and hung feathers from the wooden circle. The Shaman prayed over each dream catcher, then she distributed these beautiful dreamcatchers among her tribe.
In the days and weeks that followed, the Shaman noticed that many in her tribe had only good dreams. For many years, the Shaman continued making dream catchers for her tribe. She made them with all sorts of different beads and whatever feathers she could find.
Today, dream catchers are made in many different shapes and sizes, many of us believe that only the dreamcatchers with beads woven into the web will destroy bad dreams. Of course, you may believe as you wish, for in today's society many people hang dream catchers in many different places, a vehicle, office cubical as well as over the bed in hopes of capturing and destroying bad dreams.
Written by TarL Michael Jespersen as it was told to me by my friend who is a Navajo (Dine') Shaman.
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