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Contents |
What is a legend? -- The legends of the Cherokee -- The legend of spearfinger -- The legend of the fairy crosses -- The legend of the Cherokee rose -- The legend of the corn beads -- How selfishness came into the world or why the Smokies are Smoky -- The littel girl and her pig -- The race between the great one and the evil one -- The dog that talked -- How the Smokies were made -- Saligugi (Mud turtle) and the storyteller -- The legend of the five races of men -- The legend of the first woman -- The legend of the strawberries -- The pine tree and the pleiades -- The legend of the dogwood -- Why the redbird is red -- The first woodcarver -- The rabbit and old flint -- The legend of the Milky Way -- How the water spider captured fire -- The legend of the magic lake -- Why mountains are bald -- Why the owl has a spotted coat -- Why the possum's tail is bare -- Man learns to do housework -- Goldilocks thereafter -- The legend of the living waters -- How the bat and the flying squirrel got their wings. |
Issued in other form | Online version: Aunt Mary, tell me a story. Cherokee, N.C. : Cherokee Communications, ©1990 |
Genre/form | Folklore. |
Genre/form | Legends. |
ISBN | 0962863009 |
ISBN | 9780962863004 |