Does the Bigfoot hold an ancient / primitive knowledge of certain minerals / foods that are yet unknown to man? If so, are there any historical records to validate this association? This is what I have come up with so far. By about the eighth century AD, the Chinese alchemists, amongst others, were preoccupied with discovering the elixir of life. Concoctions were made containing all manner of substances including oils, honey and beeswax, but among the most significant, were the ingredients sulfur and saltpeter. For many centuries, the chemical used for fireworks was Saltpeter; Potassium Nitrate. This salt is found throughout the East and it was there that fireworks mixtures of Saltpeter, Sulfur, and Charcoal first appeared.

(The nitrate, RbNO3, resembles saltpeter) Rubidium salts (Rb, Na) in fireworks gives them a purple color. In Europe starting in the mid 1500's the Green man or Wild man was directly associated with fireworks. By the early seventeenth-century England figures known as 'wild men' or 'green men', had the task of maintaining order. Strewing fire from large clubs, they cleared the way for certain festive processions. The 'wild men', 'very ugly to behold' are described as having black beards and black hair, with garlands on their heads, and wearing costumes of green ivy. The people who used to make and handle fireworks were called "fire masters", "wild men" or "green men". These masters of fire were in great demand in many kingdoms and palaces. They were in charge of the entertainment at the many celebrations, military victories, religious festivals and crowning of royalty ceremonies.

One finds further associations of the 'wild man' with pyrotechnics in Western Europe in John Bate's The Mysteries of Nature and Art (in part a fireworks manual), published in London in 1635, which shows on the title page the traditional figure brandishing a 'fire-club', and again in a Danish engraving, probably of the seventeenth century, portraying several bearded men dressed in loincloths of flowers and wielding flaming sticks."