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Another tale with the sun, this one involving it being extinguished. The tale is taken from The Dawn Of The World Myths And Tales Of The Miwok Indians Of California. How Cha’-ka The Tule-wren Shot Out The Sun A Tale of the Olamentko Indians of Bodega Bay Personages Cha’-ka [...] I have created a ‘Free Kindle Book’ section in the site’s Amazon Store and added 43 free books dealing with folklore and mythology. I think it’s only fair to warn potential readers that these books, being free, will likely have poor formatting and may not include linked table of contents. But, they are free! As Amazon [...] In Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Vol XII, 1899, the following summary can be found of the various tales thus posted in regards to the Disemboweller: In Greenland she is called ‘Erdlaveersissok’ (’the entrail-seizer’). Residing on the way to the moon, she tempts people to laugh by her dancing and grimaces, and if [...] The below Inuit tale, recorded in 1884, is taken from The Central Eskimo by Frank Boas (via Michael Drake’s The Shamanic Drum). In this variation of the story, the Disemboweller (Ululiernang) is the Man in the Moon’s wife and rather than feeding on the entrails herself or feeding them to her dogs, she is said [...] After coming across the entry for the Disemboweller in Carol Rose’s Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth, I had to see what else I could find on this bizarre legend. The entry is as follows:
DISEMBOWELLER, THE As I work on my hedgehog folklore/fairy tales book, I’m always looking for valuable sources of information that are available online. While I’ve made great use of Google Books, I appear to have overlooked The Internet Archive’s Open-Access Text Archive. After finding myself returning to the site a number of times today, I decided to [...] Being mostly broke, I’m always looking for new ways to get more reading material for less money. While looking for more free folklore related titles for the Kindle, I came across what appears to be a series of books that look interesting. Previously, I posted some links to free folklore, fairy tale and mythology related [...] I realized how long of a break I took from blogging about folklore I was reading when I found this draft from April 21st, 2006, sitting about in the queue of drafts. Oh my! A few very helpful hedgehog references have come from the Physica list… “In a Bosnian legend, the origin of hedgehog is connected to [...] Not to long ago I received Kindle 2, but have found that I really haven’t used it too much. I’m very much a dead tree book type. But, today before taking my son to the park, I decided I would see what free books I could find at Amazon so I might have something to [...] |
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