HANALEI VALLEY RICE-PLANTATION STORY LANDSCAPE
Valley — Hanalei, Hawaii
Status: Natural site · Access: Access unknown
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Valley landscape associated with an Emma deFries family account.

Hanalei Valley rice-plantation story landscape is a valley in Hanalei, Hawaii. Valley landscape associated with an Emma deFries family account. Local lore holds that A retelling of Emma deFries’s 1971 account describes plantation workers seeing warriors pass through a wall and disappear in the Hanalei River.

Hanalei Valley's taro patches — the lo'i kalo the valley is known for — were rice paddies first, and it is the rice era that produced the account the file keeps. In 1971 Emma deFries, a kahuna nui and the great-great-granddaughter of Kamehameha I's own kahuna nui Hewahewa, recounted what the laborers on her grandfather Henry deFries's Hanalei plantation had seen.
The Chinese workers preparing the paddies for planting were frightened off by a group of men coming down a mountain trail near the Hanalei River — hundreds of them, dressed in malos and short feathered capes, carrying spears.

THE ACCOUNT
The laborers ran, expecting to be harmed. From a distance they looked back and watched the column walk through a stone wall that ran the length of the road — and then disappear into the Hanalei River.
The procession is filed under the Hawaiian tradition of night marchers, the huaka'i pō — ancestral warriors said to keep the paths they walked in life. The file records it as documented legend: a named witness, a family lineage, a single vivid account retold, with the working agricultural valley as its stage.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] night marchers: A retelling of Emma deFries’s 1971 account describes plantation workers seeing warriors pass through a wall and disappear in the Hanalei River. The lore gives it a name — Night marchers — which is what turns a report into a resident. A natural place in Hanalei, Hawaii doesn't need walls to hold a legend; it has geography. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The haunting is unproven and unfired: it keeps showing up for work anyway.
  source: Night Marchers in Hanalei Valley (https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/night-marchers-in-hanalei-valley)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Night Marchers in Hanalei Valley — Mysteries of Hawaiʻi
  https://www.mysteries-of-hawaii.com/blog/night-marchers-in-hanalei-valley

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