Week 10 Reading Diary: Eskimo Folk Tales

Reading Diary - Eskimo Folk Tales

• The Coming of Men, A Long, Long While Ago
• that’s really similar to Choctaw beliefs
• another flood story
• zombie rejected, becomes star?
• N-name, Who Escaped from the Tupilak
• The Woman Who Had a Bear as a Foster-Son
• she stands out at dawn to see him leave? Aww.
• Q-name, Who Passed to the Land of Ghosts
• do all ghosts switch genders or just Q?
• I-name
• The Insects that Wooed a Wifeless Man
• weird
• Makite
• is this story on drugs?
• A-name, Who Went A-Wandering
• so you kill liars, but not the man who was actually cheating? What?
• The Giant Dog*
• …...
• Papik, Who Killed His Wife’s Brother
• P-name, Who Killed his Uncle
• The Wife Who Lied
• if all this started because you took one of these women for wife, why would you take more wives from the cannibal tribe?
• The Eagle and the Whale
• A-name2, The Great Glutton
• totally thought that was going to turn into Hansel and Gretel
• A-name3
• the mainlanders aren’t very well liked, are they?
• A-name4
• T-name and S-name
• K-name