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[KingofMacaroni]

I found a woman who lives in the mountains of Jholan and who'd tole me about a nearby tribe that existed in Tai'an. Her great grandfather was a chief of this tribe and had speared a bear with a knife once since apparently these beastes were some of their ancestor's worst enemies. (Occasionally bears would attack and kill quite a few of them, then carry off their remains to the lowlands, where a lot of Taiwanese thought they were intentional killings by 'The Mountain People', since many of the bears would eat their heads). So the Taiwanese called them headhunters.

Are you familiar of this lore or do any of the Taiwanese on this board have such ancestors and beliefs? I'm wondering, too, if the reason why many bears don't exist now is due to some prejudice on the Taiwanese's part. I'd heard a Taiwanese man say once he thinks the bears were from Japan, not Taiwan.

[yamahuh]

1: Learn to spell.
2: Learn some basic grammar rules.
3: Internalize the fact that this is an ESL board.
4: Have fun traveling Taiwan.
5: Quit posting your travel related questions and experiences here.
6: I'd be amazed if there were any Native Taiwanese on this board.
7: This is a forum for people who TEACH in Taiwan.
8: Your sentence structure sucks.
9: You obviously can't proofread.
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