The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . re ofthe telling. The actors in these are eitherhuman beings endowed with supernor-mal qualities or animals conceived ofin the guise of human beings. Some ofthe myths are of a decidedlyhumorous turn and give excellent?» - •* examples of the Indians comicsense, a sense in which he isoften, for some mysterious reason,believed to be lacking. The mosthumorous stories are generallysuch as deal with the Trickster,examples of which are the OldMan of the Blackfoot, Manibojoof the Ojibwa, and Wisakichakof the
The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . re ofthe telling. The actors in these are eitherhuman beings endowed with supernor-mal qualities or animals conceived ofin the guise of human beings. Some ofthe myths are of a decidedlyhumorous turn and give excellent?» - •* examples of the Indians comicsense, a sense in which he isoften, for some mysterious reason,believed to be lacking. The mosthumorous stories are generallysuch as deal with the Trickster,examples of which are the OldMan of the Blackfoot, Manibojoof the Ojibwa, and Wisakichakof the Cree. The Trickster isgenerally thought of as a power-ful being who does much goodlor mankind, but who oft-timesgets himself into sorry scrapesor plays the clown. Many myths,?H or at least incidents of myths,are distributed over an immensearea in aboriginal America, some: • [_ m| them extending from the At-gwj. lantic to west of the Rockies.[H Such, for instance, is thefavourite story of the diving ofI Seaver or Muskrat for a handfulof earth, from which the presentworld was HEALTH AND HOSPITALS
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