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Specimens of Ainu Folk-lore.

13 entries

by John Batchelor

[Preface.]An Ainu Legend of a Famine.Another Legend of a Famine.An Ainu Legend of a Large Trout.An Ainu Tradition Concerning Okikurumi and Samai.Legend of Okikurumi in Love.A Legend of Okikurumi and His Wife Teaching the Ainu How to Fell Trees.Poiyaumbe.The Legend of the Lady of Kunnepet.Legend of Kotan Utunnai.The Legend of How the Younger Sister of the Wolf-god Was Given to Me (to wife).Why There Are Snakes in Ainu-land and Why They Swallow Frogs.Why Western Yezo Is So Rough and Dangerous.