Bear stories - Brown bear observation https://bestbearwatching.si/en/category/bear-stories/ Brown bear observation in its natural habitat Mon, 23 Mar 2020 06:35:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 How he greeted the bear https://bestbearwatching.si/en/how-he-greeted-the-bear/ Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:22:06 +0000 https://bestbearwatching.si/?p=3035 The story describes a man hunting dormice and seeing someone shaking a pear tree. The man thought it was an oldster, who was always picking up shrubs for spirit distilling. After greeting him, a branch cracks in the pear tree, then the bear roars and falls down. Both the man and the bear run their […]

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]]> Run, mama! It’s a bear! https://bestbearwatching.si/en/run-mama-its-a-bear/ Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:22:02 +0000 https://bestbearwatching.si/?p=3034 A woman says how she crossed the meadow sometime in 1959 and how a bear crossed the road. The woman’s mother had to relieve herself and the woman screamed upon seeing a bear: “Run, mama! It’s a bear!” Collected by Milena Ožbolt: ANDREJEVA stopinja: folklorne pripovedi iz Loške doline, Blok, Loškega Potoka in okolice Cerkniškega […]

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]]> Hitting the bear https://bestbearwatching.si/en/s%c7%9dm-medvajda-tjepla-2/ Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:21:59 +0000 https://bestbearwatching.si/?p=3033 Two women were raking up the hill near Poljane. They had a few things with them, including a churn, a rucksack and some fried pastry and suddenly saw something resembling a pair of trousers. One of the women initially thought it was her boyfriend, a forester. But then they both realized it was actually a […]

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]]> You better go back, will ya! https://bestbearwatching.si/en/m%c7%9dnde-bos-sla-ja-nazaj-2/ Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:21:56 +0000 https://bestbearwatching.si/?p=3032 One man claims he saw a bear the size of the one that was shot down in Bloke (which was enormous). Some men there were standing and the others were rounding up the cattle. The bears were frequently in the thickets in the fields of Poljane, so a female bear with her cub approached him. […]

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