Here are some notes on Eskimo Folk Tales.
This is a story of love between a human and an animal. An old woman is blessed with a young bear cub and helps it grow and mature, much like a human. The bear played with other children, never causing harm. Then, it played with the adults, again never causing harm. Finally, the men of the town decided they should use the bear for hunting, and the bear was the greatest hunter they had ever seen. But of course, all good things must come to an end, and others from other villages decided they would try to kill the bear. One night, the bear came home with a corpse of a man. The old woman knew her bear had to leave her then, and so one day, the she sent the bear back to the wild.
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This young boy, Q, was not only lame, he was on orphan too. His family died when he was young. At night, the rest of the village would leave, and he would be alone. One night, a ghost came and drank water, leaving before other people returned. The boy was frightened at first, but began to enjoy the company of the ghosts. Even his sister came back to see him. Then one day, the boy’s mother and father came, and they took the boy with them.
This is a story that is more of an explanation. It tells of a man and his giant dog. The giant dog was a beast that could not be defeated, not even by three big dogs. The giant dog would sometimes make trips and kill inland dwellers, and “ it is from this giant dog that the inland-dwellers got their great fear of all dogs.”
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