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INDIAN LEGEND
THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE LAND AND THE TRIBES DECIDED TO MAKE
A SACRIFICE OF THE CHIEF'S DAUGHTER TO THE SERPENT WHO WAS
CAUSING ALL THE TROUBLE. A BRAVE WAS IN LOVE WITH THE GIRL, SO
AFTER THE SERPENT KILLED HER, HE WENT AFTER THE SNAKE. BOTH
WERE KILLED, AND THE SNAKE FELL INTO THE RIVER. THE WATER
WASHED OVER IT AND FORMED NIAGRA FALLS.
Submitter comment: PETER HEARD THIS STORY IN ST. IGNACE FROM AN OLD ALGONQUIN:
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Animal PROSE NARRATIVE -- Formation |
Date learned: 05-15-1965
Belle Meade Ghost
The barn of the Belle Meade house was haunted. There was an old sway back horse who lived there and when he died his ghost came back to the barn. "I think there was supposed to be an old man who haunted it too but I can't remember."
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Animal |
Belle Meade Ghost
The barn of the Belle Meade house was haunted. There was an old sway back horse who lived there and when he died his ghost came back to the barn. "I think there was supposed to be an old man who haunted it too but I can't remember."
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Animal |
A beer brewery in Houston, Texas, went out of business because of rats. At night, rats would walk along the rims of vats and taste the beer. They would become drunk and fall in. Unknowingly, the workers would bottle the beer for sale and it would not be uncommon to pull a rat out of one's beer can.
Submitter comment:
Informant--my uncle--claims that this story is true but . . .
Where learned: TEXAS ; HOUSTON
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Animal PROSE NARRATIVE -- B447 |
Curse of a Cat
There lived a man with his face covered with black fur like a cat in the village of agricultural district of Japan. His mother extremely hated a black cat before he was born and treated it very badly and cruelly killed it. After she bore him she was dead with severe pain and everybody was surprised at seeing the baby's face covered with black fur.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector share the same surname.
Where learned: JAPAN ; HIROSHIMA
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Animal BELIEF -- Birth |
Legend
At the beginning of Meiji era when a means of transportation was not progressed his grandfather went shopping to buy two pieces of fried bean curd by walking six miles. On his way home he heard someone's voice behind him and he stopped to see who it was. But whenever he stopped the voice stopped and he finally reached his home. He thought it strange but hit upon important thing; that is, there is a mountain inhabited by foxes on his way home. To make sure, he left a piece of fried bean curd outside and after a while he looked at the place where he put it. As he expected it had disappeared.
Many people especially Shintoist thought of fox as messengers of God and deified it in the shrine. They offered fried bean curd to the shrine as it was supposed to be the most favorite food for foxes, In most cases in the agricultural area people made shrines in the mountains near each village.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant probably first learned this in Japan.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Animal |