Night Marchers - Exploring the Hawaiian Legend (snow, job)

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It is Halloween so what better time to discuss the Night Marchers in Hawaii?

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Exploring the legend of the Night Marchers - Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNL

They are the spirits of ancient Hawaiian Warriors, bound to protect their ali'i in both life, and the afterlife. Hawaiian storyteller Lopaka Kapanui sums up how powerful the legend of the night marchers is.
"In some families, even to speak it, they are afraid that they may perhaps invoke that entity to appear and to do something".
That something is to bring ill tidings, even death. As the legend says, to meet with the night marchers is to meet with doom. The reason is traced back to their job function in real life. As Lopaka explains it, in life, the marchers proceeded a person so sacred that as they passed, you could not look at them. Some were so godly that if their shadow fell upon a commoner, that person would be put to death.
Because of this, many ali'i traveled at night as to not cast a shadow. They also announced their arrival with the blowing of conch shells and the beating of drums.