Hoodoos – Tunnel Mountain – Banff. Photo taken 17 May 2013.
Here’s another pic from my (one-day-in-the-nebulous-future-to-be-defunct) blog There is a Light. I did some research on the origins of the word “hoodoo” and got snarled up in a linguistic nightmare – let’s just say the word may or may not be a version of “voodoo,” probably referring to the weird shapes of the spires.
I do love the French names for them, however: Demoiselles coiffées (“Ladies with hairdos”) and Cheminées de fées (“Fairy chimneys”) – so imaginative and beautifully descriptive! And apparently in Blackfoot and Cree traditions, hoodoos were thought to be petrified stone giants that animated in the dark of night to hurl rocks down at unsuspecting passers-by.
Flowery Prose. 