The Grasshopper War Folktale
Author | : John Witthoft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Delaware Indians |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Witthoft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Delaware Indians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thokozile Chaane |
Publisher | : MacMillan Education, Limited |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780333614112 |
Author | : John Bierhorst |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1995-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816515738 |
The Lenape, or Delaware, are an Eastern Algonquian people who originally lived in what is now the greater New York and Philadelphia metropolitan region and have since been dispersed across North America. While the Lenape have long attracted the attention of historians, ethnographers, and linguists, their oral literature has remained unexamined, and Lenape stories have been scattered and largely unpublished. This catalog of Lenape mythology, featuring synopses of all known Lenape tales, was assembled by folklorist John Bierhorst from historical sources and from material collected by linguists and ethnographersÑa difficult task in light of both the paucity of research done on Lenape mythology and the fragmentation of traditional Lenape culture over the past three centuries. Bierhorst here offers an unprecedented guide to the Lenape corpus with supporting texts. Part one of the "Guide" presents a thematic summary of the folkloric tale types and motifs found throughout the texts; part two presents a synopsis of each of the 218 Lenape narratives on record; part three lists stories of uncertain origin; and part four compares types and motifs occurring in Lenape myths with those found in myths of neighboring Algonquian and Iroquoian cultures. In the "Texts" section of the book, Bierhorst presents previously unpublished stories collected in the early twentieth century by ethnographers M. R. Harrington and Truman Michelson. Included are two versions of the Lenape trickster cycle, narratives accounting for dance origins, Lenape views of Europeans, and tales of such traditional figures as Mother Corn and the little man of the woods called Wemategunis. By gathering every available example of Lenape mythology, Bierhorst has produced a work that will long stand as a definitive reference. Perhaps more important, it restores to the land in which the Lenape once thrived a long-missing piece of its Native literary heritage.
Author | : Mark White |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 2011-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1404865055 |
Retells the fable about an industrious ant that busily prepares for the approaching winter while a grasshopper makes no plans for the cold weather to come.
Author | : Gloria Dominic |
Publisher | : Troll Communications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : 9780816745128 |
This exciting and funny Pomo legend explains how brave Coyote once saved the people from a drought and a plague of grasshoppers.
Author | : Gloria Dominic |
Publisher | : Rourke Publishing (FL) |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Bangsa Melayu is a study of political ideology in two related but distinct Malay communities--in Peninsular Malaya and East Sumatra--at a time of political ferment in the years immediately after the Second World War. Prior to this period, the kerajaan or monarchy headed by the sultans, had been central to the Malay political culture and identity, but with the rise of nationalism, nation-states, and nationality in the Malay Archipelago, new alternatives were available to the Malays. In this study, the author focuses on the basic differences in thinking, temperament, and attitude between the two groups of Malaya which led to their differing solutions in finding an alternative to the kerajaan.
Author | : – Aesop |
Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 2021-12-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 8726664429 |
‘The Ant and The Grass Hopper’ is a fable that teaches the importance of planning, of self-reliance and hard work. The frolicking grass hopper spends his summer dancing and never working while the ant makes sure to put aside supplies for the coming winter. It is a tale that resonates to this day thanks to its important message of the importance of hard work as well as having fun. It is great reading for all ages on the importance of being able to plan and support yourself. Aesop's fables feature animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics. All the stories story lead to a particular moral lesson. Aesop (620-564 BCE) was a Greek story teller and fabulist who’s collection of fables continue to resonate and be taught to this day. His work is characterised by animals and inanimate objects with distinctly human traits, that speak and solve problems. None of his original work survives to this day, it is thanks to his popularity that his works survive in sources from Aristotle, Plutarch and Herodotus. Little is known about him but ancient stories describe him as an exceptionally ugly slave who, thanks to his cleverness, acquired his freedom, becoming an advisor to Kings and city-states.