The Childhood of Man; a Popular Account of the Lives, Customs And Thoughts of the Primitive Races
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Myth of the Raven and Fisher, Haida Drawing in Niblack. to who really was his enemy on the bed of the sea, instead of the usual hook he rigged up a magic one. And thus the raven was taken. Now, when the fisher was taking home his tackle, the raven resisted by planting his feet and wings against the bottom of the canoe. But Houskana was stronger, and tore off the raven's beak, seized him, and brought him to the coast in order to find out who he really was. For no sooner was the beak torn off tha...n the raven changed himself into a man who had his head covered with a fur cloak, so that only his eyes could be seen. In vain the fisher tried to make the man show his face. But at last one of the young people took a handful of dirt and rubbed it in the raven's eyes. That did the business. 283 THE DOWNFALL OF THE GOD He threw aside his cloak, and then every one saw that it was Hooyeh. V. Litaolane (Basuto Tribe, South-East Africa) WE are told that in the early times all mankind once perished. Amonstrous animal, called Kammapa, devoured Fig.
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