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Huron folk-lore: III. the legend of The Thunderers
Journal of American folk-lore • 4 (15) • Published In 1891 • Pages: 289-294
By: Hale, Horatio.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document relates a tale about a young warrior who accidently breaks his leg and is abandoned by his comrades. He is rescued by an old man who asks the warrior to live with him and hunt for him. The warrior subsequently encounters the thunder gods who roam the earth to expunge evil. They reveal to him that his old companion is in fact a porcupine and a "noxious creature" to be destroyed, which they do. The gods return the warrior to his home, giving him magical powers of flight and rainmaking.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Verbal arts
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnometeorology
- Ethnozoology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Huron/Wendat
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1872-1874
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1881-1881
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Amherstburg (Anderdon), Essex County, Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Horatio Hale
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17028737
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wyandot Indians