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Nukungusik, who Escaped from the Tupilak many brothers no wife middle brother trying to kill him --killed him helped them search for the body Nuk lived very long and died last of the brothers The Giant Dog man with a very big dog  could swim in the sea and could haul whale and narwhal to shore drilled holes in teeth and put a harness in it so he could ride the dog the guy never had son so gave the dog this amulet (knot of hard wood)  this helped the dog not die the dog ate a man so the owner had to go live somewhere else with his dog Someone came on the island so the man tried to make sure the dog didn't know  the dog smelt the new man and his owner hid the new comer dog would go kill inlanders and then bring the legs back to his owner  this is why the inlanders are scared of all dogs The Giant Dog Web Source Story source:  Eskimo Folk-Tales  by Knud Rasmussen with illustrations by native Eskimo artists (1921).

Why Hummingbirds Drink Only Dew Only drink dew  hummingbird and great blue heron ownded a lake tougher  they had a gambling problem Hummingbird bet that he could fly from one end of their lake to the other faster than the heron Whoever lost the bet had to give up drinking from that lake and all others Humming is faster but didn't know he couldn't fly across the lake in one day  got dark and he can't fly in darkness but Heron could fly at night -- but Humming did not know it  Heron was at the end laughing at Humming  this is why Hummings only drink dew How Sickness Entered the World Sickness used to not be in the world then two Indians killed a messenger from the Great Spirit The Great Spirt left an old medicin man wisdom before the medicine man died GS would send down a messanger to tell the medicine man what to do but the man got too weak so he sent two Indians the messanger  The two young men were waiting for the messenger bu...

The Cloud That Was Lost high mountains clouds sleep on the top of peaks  trying to grow heavy enough to send down rain explains fog cloud got lost over flat land cloud started crying stretched itself out and gave flowers below color how the flower Wild Pholx got its soft colors that look like evening clouds Grandmother River's Trick scared of other fish in the river Basically bully of the river ate and ate but were never hungy oh grandmother was river  she didn't like the bully fish  The river asked the cloud to create a flood Tricked the garfish to swim out of the river banks and explore where her water now touched was able to run and leave the gar fish in the little pools newly created The plant that grows in trees mistletoe  only birds can reach the little white berries that only appear in both in summer and winter bird put it there once because it had pity on the mistletoe Thunderbird thanked the mistletoe for its berries...

Tying Tiger Mango tree Very hard dialog Tiger climbs up tree and eats all mangos Then shakes tree to get more mangos down Brer Nansi was ease dropping Bald man Baldness makes them run out of the house because scared Very hard read Tiger Catching the Sheep-Thief Mis Madder owns sheep Mr. Anansi wants to giver her a hen But wants it back in a few weeks after Mis madder tries to offer a sheep up so she would have 19 left Tiger offers to kill the sheep and then dress up like the sheep and kill Mr. Anasi Successful Tiger's Breakfast  going to eat breakfast at Hanasi's place Comes back the next day Hunts cows Reason why you see the white bellies The Christening Wants to hide in the bushes Keeps changing names of Chile Looking for the keg of butter Climbed a high tree to eat the butter until he melted the butter White-Bellied Spider talked about in Tiger's Breakfast. Web Link. Source:  Story source:  Jamaica Anansi Stories ...

This story is part of the Bidpai unit . Story source: The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton, with illustrations by E. Boyd Smith, 1908. The Hare, the fox, and the Wolf Hare convinces wolf not to eat it but to eat the fox Fox had secret door-- tricked hare and wolf -- wolf ate hare Three Stories about Snakes The Sparrows and the Snake Snake stole the sparrows' home and then the nest was destroyed and the snake died The Frog, the Crab, and the Serpent The Blind man and the snake Blind man mistook the snake for a whip Wouldn't believe friend when he said it was a snake-- accused of jealousy Blind man gripped it even harder and the snake killed him The two Tortoise stories The Tortoise and the Geese Begs the Geese to take him -- he must be silent on the journey He kept his mouth shut on a stick and the two geese flew him All the humans kept laughing at seeing that He opened his mouth to call them stupid-- he died ...

Story Source:  The Arabian Nights' Entertainments  by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898). Treasures Lamp Ring Fruit trees -- turns out is jewels Genie in a ring, not the lamp Aladdin's mom calls the genies devils Jewels from the trees convinced the Sultan to let Aladdin marry the princess Transported the bed Sultan is a tricky man and tried to get out of his deal twice "Princess," he said, "blame your beauty for my boldness if I have displeased you." Aladdin: captain of the Sultan's armies The palace: "the greatest wonder of the world" The magician took the princess and palace to Africa Princess tricked him to drink powder A lot of acting like you aren't in this story Aladdin and the Princess reunited Web Source 

Story Source:  The Arabian Nights' Entertainments  by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898). Scheherazade ○ Clever, courageous, beautiful • Dinarzade ○ Nothing special • Grand-vizir ○ Loyalty • Told the story an hour before sunrise: The Story of the Merchant and the Genius • Genie introduced as a villain -- first impression • Cliffhangers keep her alive (Scheherazade) • Merchant ○ Honorable man ○ His life relies on a story as well § Old man's story □ Adopted son--> calf □ Mother of son --> cow □ Wife --> hind • The second old man, and of the Two Black Dogs ○ A merchant ○ Brothers are the two black dogs § Squander away money § Tried to kill him and his wife The Merchant was left with a thousand sequins from his father. Web Link