Reading Notes: Pacific Northwest Part B
Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest by Katharine B Judson
- Little boy wants a wife
- Lesson is to listen to advice
- Details that don't seem to contribute to the story (why did he spit on the rock?)
- Inanimate objects speak
- Name then dialogue
- Cutting the salmon down the back instead of the belly
- Disclaimer that story is fact
- "eyes in which terror and love struggled for mastery"
- Verse at the end
- "a wise bird, a foe to magic" implying that magic is unwise?
- Clear concept of ghosts
- Ghosts behave like people
- Before the white man came
- Great River is the divide between spirit world and people world
- Why we can't visit dead people
- Coyote returns as important character
- Sinews inside
- Complimentary to all the local tribes except Snake River
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| Coyote Howling by Kansas Tourism via Flickr |
- A cake of ice
- Ambiguous pronouns ("he" referring to whom?)
- Title barely related to story
- Hangry grizzly meets tricky coyote
- All about reputation
- Animals behaving like people
- Again using the arrow chain trick
- Seems like part of a series of stories
- "halloo"
- Bear seems like a bad guy in a lot of these
- Stories about resource scarcity, basic needs
- Relay race, cooperation
- Tum-tum = salmon trap..?
- Story of impatience
- Lots of stories about naming the animals, giving them features and roles
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