Legends and Stories
- Chipmunk and meadowlark- Sanpoil legend about two children attacked by a monster
- Coyote becomes chief of the salmon- Sanpoil legend about the adventures of coyote.
- Coyote's salmon- Coyote teaches the Sanpoil to harvest salmon.
- Five wolves- Sanpoil story about a boy who turned into a chickadee
- How the cold lost its power- Sanpoil story about the origin of the seasons
- Origin of different languages- Sanpoil story about a quarrel between tribes
- Rolling stone- Sanpoil story about coyote getting in trouble with a grasshopper family
- Tick and the deer- Sanpoil story about the origin of the wood tick.
- Woodpecker and the theft of fire- Sanpoil legend about the origin of fire
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Famous quotes containing the words legends and/or stories:
“Therefore our legends always come around to seeming legendary,
A path decorated with our comings and goings. Or so I’ve been told.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because—despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content—these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)