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Cherokee myths and legends : thirty tales retold /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Introduction: considerations in adapting Native American traditional literature -- Guide to the pronunciation of Cherokee words -- Origins -- The three worlds -- Fire -- Corn and game -- Disease and medicine -- The bear and the bear songs -- Tobacco -- The Pleiades and the pine cone -- Killing the great monsters -- The Great Yellow Jacket Ulagu -- The leech place -- The Uktena and the Shawano conjuror -- The red man and the Uktena -- Ustu-tli, the great snake of the Cohutta Mountains -- The great hawks -- The hunter in the Dakwa -- Supernatural and animal adversaries and helpers -- Spear-finger, the Nantahala Ogress -- The Stone Man of the Mountains -- The raven mockers -- The immortals and the water cannibals -- The man who traveled to the world below -- Judaculla, the slant-eyed giant of Tanasee Bald -- Legends of Pilot Knob -- Yahula -- The unseen helpers -- Legends from history by or about the Cherokee -- The lost Cherokee -- Ga'na and the Cherokee -- The Mohawk warriors -- The false warriors -- Jocassee -- Some heroic acts in wars with whites -- Cateechee of Keowee: a ballad of the Carolina backcountry -- Notes on sources used in the retellings.…”
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Fossil legends of the first Americans /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Marsh monsters of big bone lick -- The northeast: giants, great bears, and grandfather of the buffalo -- New Spain: bones of fear and birds of terror -- The southwest: fossil fetishes and monster slayers -- The prairies: fossil medicine and spirit animals -- The high plains: thunder birds, water monsters, and buffalo-calling stones -- Common ground -- Fossil frauds and specious legends.…”
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Folktales of the Jews.
Published 2007Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Folktales of the Jews.
Published 2006Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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An illustrated guide to Korean mythology
Published 2008Subjects: “…Legends Korea.…”
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Choctaw tales
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Wisdom and initiation in Gabon : a philosophical analysis of Fang tales, myths and legends /
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Puro Mexicano : Lore and Legends from South of the Border /
Published 2000Table of Contents: “…Stoker -- Juan Garca̕ goes to heaven / Frost Woodhull -- The eagle lover / Bertha McKee Dobie -- Legends from Durango / Everardo Gm̀iz -- Holy Ghost Canyon / Maude McFie Bloom -- Old-time new Mexican usages / Alice M. …”
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Kewa tales
Published 1985Subjects: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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A tree accurst Bobby McMillon and stories of Frankie Silver /
Published 2000Subjects: “…Silver, Frankie Legends.…”
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Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel /
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The flying tiger women shamans and storytellers of the Amur /
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Udegei Storytellers in Gvasyugi 3 -- EOFU SISILIEVICH KIMONKO -- Two girls and Kanda Mafa 9 -- VALENTINA TUNSYANOVNA KYALUNDZYUGA -- Kanda Mafa and the Bones 1 -- The Seagull 18 -- Crow and Otter 21 -- Biatu and Belye 24 -- The Ice Mountain 29 -- Yegdyga and the Seal 32 -- 2 More Stories from Gvasyugi 34 -- EVDOKIA BATOVNA KYALUNDZYUGA -- Sister and Brother 39 -- The Girl Who Married a Crow 49 -- Two Sisters 52 -- 3 Nivkh Storytelling in Nikolaevsk-na-Amure 58 -- MARIA SEMYONOVNA PIMGUN -- Nivkh Writing 62 -- KLAVDIA IVANOVNA TIDIP -- Knee Bump (Swan Girl) 63 -- 4 Nanai Storytelling in Dada and Jari 71 -- MARIA GRIGORIEVNA BELDI -- Frog and Mouse 74 -- The Terrible Frog 76 -- The Girl in the Ice 78 -- ANNA PETROVNA KHODZHER -- Endohochen 82 -- The Boy Who Went to a Forbidden Place 89 -- Duchieke 91 -- 5 Nanai Storytelling in Nergen and Naikhin 94 -- VIOLETTA KHODZHER -- Violetta's Legends 96 -- TOMTO VASILIEVNA BELDI -- The Mosquito Net 97 -- ANNA PETROVNA KHODZHER -- Frog, Mouse, and Moose loo -- Pole, Caviar, Bladder, Haystack, and Bigeyes 103 -- The Lazy Boy 104 -- The Puppy 105 -- NIKOLAI PETROVICH BELDI -- Tiger Story 1o ^ -- The Passar Shaman 111 -- MINGO CHUSANBOVNA GEIKER -- Applesauce 112 -- 6 Gvasyugi Storytelling 117 -- VALENTINA TUNSYANOVNA KYALUNDZYUGA -- Gounya 123 -- The Monkeys 126 -- Palam Padu - The Hunter's Bag 128 -- Six Brothers and the Squirrels 132 -- Toad Wife 136 -- Seven Girls 138 -- Belye and Naundyaka 140 -- Gamuli 144 -- 7 Ul'chi Storytelling in Bulava 148 -- NADEZHDA DUVAN -- Ul'chi Bear Ceremony 154 -- YMYNDA YCHA -- Two Sisters 155 -- CHANA MARFAN -- Memories of a Shaman 161 -- SOPHIA ANGA -- The Sheat-fish 166 -- How Anga Became a Shaman 170 -- The Tiger Husband 171 -- Anga's Grandfather and the Tiger 173 -- MADO SOPCHOVNA DECHULI -- Two Girls Who Married Tigers 174 -- NINA VASILIEVNA MUNINA -- The Boy and the Tiger 176 -- ANNA ALEXEEVNA (NYURA) KAVDA -- The Swan Girls 180 -- The Taimen Girl 182 -- 8 Nanai Storytelling in Nizhnye Khalby -- and Kondon 185 -- VALENTIN ILYCH GEIKER -- The Geiker Clans 187 -- LYUBOV FEODOROVNA SAMAR -- The Flea Drum 192 -- Lakicho 197 -- The Girl and the Skull 201 -- Bear and Fox 204 -- KSENIA IVANOVNA DIGOR (PURMA BOGDANOVNA) -- Girl-Bride and Frog-Bride 208 -- Two Old Women and Their Pants 212 -- MARIA BORISOVNA KILE -- The Crocodile 217 -- Appendices -- History of the Amur Peoples 227 -- Readings on Siberian Shamanism 237.…”
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