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| Genre/Form: | Folklore |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Malotki, Ekkehart. Hopi stories of witchcraft, shamanism, and magic. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2001 (OCoLC)606538736 Online version: Malotki, Ekkehart. Hopi stories of witchcraft, shamanism, and magic. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2001 (OCoLC)608450271 |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ekkehart Malotki; Ken Gary |
| ISBN: | 0803232179 9780803232174 |
| OCLC Number: | 45172791 |
| Description: | lvii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The stories. The boy who encountered the jimsonweed and four o'clock girls -- The man who was buried alive -- How old spider woman came to the rescue of the Yaya't -- The boy who wanted to be a medicine man -- The Tsa'kwayna death spirits -- The fate of Pongoktsina and his wife -- The man who traveled to Maski, home of the dead, to bring back his wife -- The Yaya't and their feats -- An Oraibi boy's visit to Maski, home of the dead -- The snake clan boy and the sorcerers -- The man who was married to a witch -- How Coyote came to visit Maski, home of the dead -- The So'yoko Orge and his wife --How Somaykoli came to Shungopavi -- The boy who was born from a dead mother-- Kotsoylaptiyo and the sorcerers -- How the snake ceremony came to Oraibi -- The boy who became a deer -- The woman who gave birth to the seeds -- The creation of the morning and evening star -- How the Pöqangw brothers stole the lightening -- The poor boy who wanted a horse -- How the Pöqangw brothers found their father -- The water vessel boy -- A famine at Oraibi -- How the Zunis killed the Hehey'a kachinas -- Yaapontsa, the wind god -- So'yoko and the Shungopavis -- The witch owl -- The gambling boy who married a bear girl. |
| Responsibility: | Ekkehart Malotki and Ken Gary ; illustrations by Karen Knorowski. |
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