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Re: [lojban] RE: from the classics

To: pycyn@aol.com
Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: from the classics
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:57:08 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com
In-reply-to: <b0.17aa1230.288c3d1d@aol.com> from "pycyn@aol.com" at "Jul 22, 2001 10:28:45 am"

pycyn@aol.com scripsit:
> (Send finger faster than typing one)
> Nick:
> <Where are BrerRabbit stories indigenous to again, anyway?>
> Joel Chandler Harris was in rural Georgia, I believe.  Most to those stories 
> have ancestors still told in the Bight of Benin (Rabbit and Leopard, 
> usually).

AFAIK the Brer Rabbit stories are Anansi (Spider) stories; the rabbit
motif was introduced by Eastern Indians, who used Rabbit as the
equivalent of the better known Coyote: the trickster spirit.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter

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