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Gros Ventre Myths and Tales - Classic Reprint
Author: A L Kroeber

Excerpt from Gros Ventre Myths and Tales — Of the more important stories and incidents occurring in the present Gros Ventre collection, but wanting in the larger Arapaho collection, the following may be mentioned: the separation of the tribe while crossing the ice; the very widespread incident of the hero who is swallowed by a monster, and kills ... more »him by cutting his heart; the boy who is abandoned by his parents, and raised by buffalo-bulls the tale of a young man who enters a tent among a hostile tribe to marry a girl; and the tale of the bad wife as told by the Blackfeet.

Some of the mythical incidents that have the most common distribution in central North America, but that so far have not been found among either the Arapaho or Gros Ventre, are the story of the theft of light or the sun; of the theft of, or some other means of obtaining, water; of the supernatural being that has been wounded by a human being, so that a human medicine man only can extract the weapon; of the person or pursuer who crosses a body of water or a chasm on a leg, usually of the crane, and is shaken off; of the hero who transforms himself into a leaf or small object, which is drunk by a woman, as whose son he is reborn; of the bathing women with bird-skins, one of whom is captured; of the Visit far to the east to the sun; of the unfaithful wife who has a snake or water-monster as her lover, one of the most persistent traditional ideas in northeastern America; the common conception of the origin of mankind or the tribe from the lower world or successive lower worlds; and a. Tradition of a visit to the land of the dead, other than in stories told as the actual experience of persons recently alive or still living.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

ISBN-13: 9781333424640
ISBN-10: 1333424647
Publication Date: 8/31/2016
Pages: 92
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Book Type: Paperback
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