Cain and Bigfoot
46 Primary Sources
Date | Summary | |||
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170 BC | James H. Charlesworth translates text regarding Cain as a "dark calf." | Unknown Non-LDS | Translation 3rd Hand | |
100 - | Uncertain Syriac text indicating "black" or "sad." | Unknown Non-LDS | Unsourced Late Ancient | |
400 - | Codex Vaticanus reference to Cain. | Unknown | Ancient | |
609 - | Ali Ünal offers translation re: Cain. | Ali Ünal Non-LDS | Reprint Translation | |
700 - | AAAL offers an account of Cain where identified as "black." | Unknown Non-LDS | Translation 3rd Hand Late Secondary | |
1008 | LCE scribe writes C as "casting down" his face. | Cain Non-LDS | Scribed Verbatim Reprint Translation 3rd Hand Late | |
1200 - | Harry Sperling and Maurice Simon offer translation of Kabbalah text re: C's curse. | Unknown Non-LDS | Translation Secondary | |
1620 | Thomas Peyton identifies Cain as "black." | Thomas Peyton Non-LDS | Direct Reprint | |
1625 | Apocryphal account of Cain being killed by an arrow after being mistaken for an animal. | Unknown Non-LDS | Late | |
1733 | Elihu Coleman rejects that Cain and Canaan share a common lineage. | Elihu Coleman Non-LDS | Direct | |
Oct 16, 1785 | Paul Erdmann Iserts comments on alleged "Cain" origins for Africans. | Paul Erdmann Iserts Non-LDS | Direct Reprint | |
1834 | Wheatley discusses the outcome of her enslavement and describes Africans in Cain-like terms. | Phyllis Wheatley Non-LDS | Direct | |
1834 | David Child rejects the curse of Cain theory. | David Child Non-LDS | Direct | |
Apr 1836 | Messenger and Advocate comments on scriptural support for priesthood and temple restrictions. | Messenger and Advocate LDS | Direct | |
1838 | Weld criticizes use of Cain myth for African origins. | Theodore D. Weld Non-LDS | Direct | |
Jan 25, 1842 | Joseph describes Black people as "sons of Cain." | Joseph Smith, Jr. LDS | Scribed Verbatim Direct | |
1847 | Rawson meets Cain-like figure in Nauvoo in 1847. | Horace S. Rawson LDS | Direct | |
1852 | John Fletcher argues that Ham married a descendant of Cain. | John Fletcher Non-LDS | Direct | |
1852 | Josiah Priest rejects Cain theory in favor of Ham theory. | Josiah Priest Non-LDS | Direct | |
1852 | John Fletcher writes that Ham's degraded condition resulted from marriage with the cursed race of Cain. | John Fletcher Non-LDS | Direct | |
Aug 27, 1868 | Article on Bear Lake monster sightings. | Deseret Evening News LDS | 2nd Hand Journalism | |
Aug 31, 1869 | Interview with BYJ says BY was investigating Bear Lake Monster. | Unknown | Scribed Paraphrase 2nd Hand Reprint Journalism | |
Jan 12, 1873 | George Q. Cannon states that God loves all, including the "dark sons of Cain." | George Q. Cannon LDS | Scribed Verbatim | |
1874 | Brown rejects Cain origin for peoples of African ancestry. | William Wells Brown Non-LDS | Direct | |
Aug 17, 1881 | Church leaders see Bear Lake monster. | Deseret Evening News LDS | 2nd Hand Journalism | |
1884 | Eliza R. Snow references David W. Patten seeing Cain. | Eliza R. Snow LDS | 2nd Hand Late | |
Jun 3, 1885 | Deseret News commenter theorizes on descendants of Cain. | Unknown LDS | Direct Journalism | |
1900 | LW reprints AOS's telling of DWP seeing Cain. | Abraham O. Smoot LDS | 2nd Hand Reprint Late | |
Jul 24, 1948 | C in Hawaii in 1919. | Unknown LDS | 2nd Hand Late | |
Apr 4, 1952 | Eldred G. Smith notes that descendants of Cain are not eligible to receive priesthood. | Eldred G. Smith LDS | Direct | |
Aug 17, 1965 | AD holds that Christ supersedes all racial "cursing." | Adam Duncan (Utah Executive Commission on Civil Rights) LDS | Scribed Summary Journalism | |
Sep 29, 1967 | Ezra T. Benson says God only knows why no priesthood for "seed of Cain." | Ezra Taft Benson LDS | Scribed Verbatim Direct | |
1969 | Most prominent reference to the DP Cain story. | Spencer W. Kimball LDS | 3rd Hand Late | |
1980 | William Wilson and Richard Paulsen offer history of Mormon use of Cain account. | William Wilson LDS | Scribed Summary 2nd Hand Secondary | |
Apr 6, 1980 | BRM celebrates "seed of Cain" receiving the priesthood. | Bruce R. McConkie LDS | Direct | |
1983 | TR tells a story about a bigfoot-like creature, a "goblin-beast." | Theodore Roosevelt Non-LDS | 2nd Hand | |
1990 | A later historical source that explicitly links the idea of Cain to Bigfoot. | Lee D. Bell LDS | Unsourced | |
1997 | Johannes Glenthøj gives an analysis of possible Cain deaths. | Johannes Glenthøj Non-LDS | Secondary | |
2000 | History of the Cain-as-cursed-wanderer motif. | Liturgical Press Non-LDS | Secondary | |
2001 | SL writes a fictional book based on the C/B connection, acting as modern day folklore. | Shane Lester LDS | Direct | |
Jul 24, 2003 | Deseret Morning News offers summary of Cain lore in Utah. | Deseret Morning News LDS | 3rd Hand Journalism | |
2005 | Richard D. Draper, S. Kent Brown, and Michael D. Rhodes identify "seed of Cain" with "skin pigmentation." | Richard D. Draper LDS | Secondary | |
2007 | Matthew Bowman's academic article on the Cain/Bigfoot connection. | Matthew Bowman LDS | 3rd Hand Secondary | |
2008 | Matthew Bowman writes on Bigfoot/Cain connection. | Matthew Bowman LDS | Direct Secondary | |
2011 | Alan Morrell offers summary of Church leader responses to Bear Lake Monster. | Alan Morrell LDS | Secondary | |
Jan 9, 2014 | Early accounts of Bigfoot. | sasquatchhistory.wordpress.com Non-LDS | 2nd Hand Late |