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American Indian myths and legends /
selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.
1st ed.
New York :
Pantheon Books,
1984.
xv, 527 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library
Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library
Series statement from jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 522-525) and index.
Rabbit Boy kicked that blood clot around : tales of human creation -- The place of emergence : tales of world creation -- The eye of the Great Spirit : tales of the sun, moon, and stars -- Ordeals of the hero : monsters and monster slayers -- Counting coup : war and the warrior code -- The sound of flutes : tales of love and lust -- Coyote laughs and cries : trickster tales -- Four legs, two legs, and no legs : stories of animals and other people -- Something whistling in the night : ghosts and the spirit world -- Only the rocks and mountains last forever : visions of the end.
Native American myths and legends of creation, sun, moon, stars, heroes, monsters, warriors, love, lust, Coyote the trickster, animals, ghosts, and the end of the world.
012 and up.
20170412.
Indians of North America
Folklore.
Indian mythology
North America.
Erdoes, Richard.
Ortiz, Alfonso,
1939-
Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library.
Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library.