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Seneca Myths and Folk Tales (Paperback, New Ed)
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"On the Cattaraugus reservation, it was part of a child's initial
training to learn why the bear lost its tail, why the chipmunk has
a striped back, and why meteors flash in the sky," writes Arthur C.
Parker at the beginning of "Seneca Myths and Folk Tales," His blood
ties to the Senecas and early familiarity with their culture led to
a distinguished career as an archaeologist and to the publication
in 1923 of this pioneeering work. Parker recreates the milieu in
which the Seneca legends and folktales were told and discusses
their basic themes and components before going on to relate more
than seventy of them that he heard as a boy. Here is the magical
Senecan world populated by unseen good and evil spirits, ghosts,
and beings capable of transformation. Included are creation myths;
folktales involving contests between mortal youths and assorted
powers; tales of love and marriage; and stories about cannibals,
talking animals, pygmies, giants, monsters, vampires, and witches.
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