Stories about bad luck and volcano rock?
Jarrah J asked:
On a recent trip to Hawaii I visited Volcano’s National Park, and our tour guide was talking about how superstition says that if you remove lava from Hawaii Goddess Pele will punish you with bad luck. He went on to say that many people don’t believe and mail the lava back and a number of the letters have been printed up in to a book for sale in the gift shop. Unfortunately he told us this after we had already left the gift shop. Is any one familiar with this book. What is it called and where can I buy it online?
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On a recent trip to Hawaii I visited Volcano’s National Park, and our tour guide was talking about how superstition says that if you remove lava from Hawaii Goddess Pele will punish you with bad luck. He went on to say that many people don’t believe and mail the lava back and a number of the letters have been printed up in to a book for sale in the gift shop. Unfortunately he told us this after we had already left the gift shop. Is any one familiar with this book. What is it called and where can I buy it online?
August 31st, 2009 at 11:58 am
only a superstition,,,,go pick as many as you like, they do that to sell books.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:16 am
Try this:
Amazon lists other books on this page that might be helpful to you as well. Or you could contact the Visitors Center at VNP and ask them to send you the book.
September 4th, 2009 at 9:15 am
This is true. Having worked in the hotel industry on Maui for more years than I wish to reveal, I have had countless rocks mailed back from guests requesting that they be returned to end their streak of bad luck.
Go here for information about the book you are looking for.
September 6th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Did you buy the lava rocks in the book store? I guess those don’t have any kapu on them.
September 10th, 2009 at 6:45 am
try the main post office in honolulu. if i’m not mistaken, i saw a story about all the rocks at the p.o. that people do send back. maybe they can point you i the right direction.. or the u.s. park service on maui