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Publisher
Viking Press
Language
English
Pages
159

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New York

Table of Contents

Earth, sky and sea. What makes moonshine on water (Mexico)
Who? (Yuchi-Creek)
How the Earth was made to fit the sky (Bugun)
How the sun was made (Euahlayi)
Why the sun and moon live in the sky (Efik)
How the Earth's fire was saved (Tinguian)
How the people sang the mountains up (Jicarilla Apache)
Why the tides ebb and flow (Tahltan, Malay)
Why the sea is salt (Old Norse)
Who the man in the moon is. The old man and his bush (Altai Tatar) ; The old humpback (Malay) ; Frogs in the moon (Lillooet) ; Hjuki and Bil (Old Norse) ; The moon's face (Masai).
Man. How the people began (Greenland Eskimo)
Chameleon finds
(Yao)
Creator makes
(Yokuts)
The lizard-hand (Yokuts)
How wisdom came to man (Ashanti)
How Rabbit stole fire from the buzzards (Catawba)
How the people got fire (Cherokee)
How man learned to make fire (Toba)
How mankind learned to make bread (Kabyle).
Animals. Why the animals have no fire (Coeur d'Alene of Idaho)
How baboons came into the world (Zulu)
Why God made the dogs (Rumania)
Why people keep dogs (Yao)
Dog's hoop (Lipan Apache)
How people got the first cat (Ch'uan Miao)
Why Cat eats first (South Carolina Negro)
How the first horse was made (Kond)
Why Goat cannot climb a tree (Haitian Creole)
Why Sheep does not come in out of the rain (North Carolina Negro)
Why Rabbit has a short tale (Baganda-Alabama Negro)
How Bat won the ball game (Creek)
Why Bat flies alone (Modoc)
Why Bear sleeps all winter (North Carolina Negro)
How chipmunk got his stripes (Iroquois)
Why Lion lives in the forest (Yao)
How Tiger learned to hunt (Popoluca)
How Whale happens to smoke a pipe (Passamaquoddy)
Why Elephant and Whale live where they do (Bahama Negro)
Why Spider has a little head and a big behind (Akan-Ashanti)
How Spider got his threat (Wishosk or Wiyot)
Why Porpoise is not a fish (Polynesia)
Why Dog gnaws a bone (Tuscany).
Birds. Why the birds are different colors (North Carolina Negro)
Why Chicken lives with man (Mpongwe)
How Rooster got his comb (Ch'uan Miao)
Why Rooster is so neat (United States)
Why Robin has a red breast (Congo)
How Kingfisher got his necklace (Chippewa)
How Loon learned his call (Passamaquoddy)
Owl (Gloucestershire)
Why Wagtail wags her tail (Rumania)
Why Crow has a right to first corn (Iroquois)
How Crane got his long beak (Gumaitj)
Why Peacock looks at his tale (Devonshire).
Insects, reptiles, and fish. Why the flea jumps (Tuscany)
Why ants live everywhere (Burma)
Why ants carry large bundles (Ashanti)
Why Fly rubs his hands together (Luiseño)
Why Grasshopper spits tobacco juice (Penobscot)
Why Crocodile does not eat Hen (Fjort)
How Rattlesnake got his fangs (Luiseño)
How tadpoles lost their tails (North Carolina Negro)
Why frogs croak in wet weather (Korea)
How Turtle keeps from getting wet (Natchez)
Why Flounder's two eyes are on the same side of his face (Polynesia)
Why Jellyfish has no shell (Japan)
Why Crab's eyes stick out (Fjort).
Plants. Why some trees are evergreen (Cherokee)
How the coconut tree was saved (Apayao)
How Bean got his stripe (Europe)
How yams got their eyes (Easter Island).
Constellations. The Great Bear (Micmac)
Why people watch the dipper (Tahltan)
Pleiades (Cherokee)
Udleqdjun in the sky (Central Eskimo).

Edition Notes

"Notes and bibliography": p. 141-159.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
398.2
Library of Congress
PZ8.1.L36 Ho

The Physical Object

Pagination
159 p.
Number of pages
159

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24864706M
Internet Archive
howpeoplesangmou00leac
LCCN
67008078
OCLC/WorldCat
486130

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