Author: Leo Joachim Frachtenberg

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781230011349

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...they found. There, (where) they were going to try to look (for him), they found no tracks (of him) anywhere. Then the old man said thus: "(I doubt whether we) shall accomplish anything. We will return. Maybe a bad bear has taken away this my child." So they returned, and came back into the house. "I give up my child," (said the old man.) (Let us) now (turn to) the man who was seized (by the bear)? They' two, the man who was seized and his wife, had already lain down (together). "Your mind will never be the same, it will become different." (Thus said his wife.) (After a while) they two had children. And that is why it is 'said of the bear, that he is half human. They two raised many children. They had ten children. "The woman is very pretty." Thus thought that man. He was very glad (because) he begot many children. Although the house was very large, still it was full of all (kinds of) dried things, --dried blackberries and also dried salal-berries. That man was not worrying about anything. His mind had become different. For that reason it is said of the bear that he is half human. All know it to be so, (because) she had taken a mortal man (for a husband). Now, it here only ends. It is the finish. All people know that the Bear-(Woman) had made mortal man her husband, (and that because of that she became) half human, (and that) for that reason the bear (even to-day has the) manners of a mortal person. 1 An Alsea myth told in the Lower Umpqua language. '1 At Seal Rock, a promontory situated some twelve miles north of the town of Newport. 3 The preceding part of this story may be looked upon as an introductory chapter. 1 1. THE LosT SEAL-HuNTERs 1 (A/sea). Many lived there2 (in the...