From cowan@ccil.org Sun Jul 22 14:57:01 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 22 Jul 2001 21:57:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 39791 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2001 21:57:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Jul 2001 21:57:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 22 Jul 2001 21:57:00 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15ORDo-0008IQ-00; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:57:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: from the classics In-Reply-To: from "pycyn@aol.com" at "Jul 22, 2001 10:28:45 am" To: pycyn@aol.com Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:57:08 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan pycyn@aol.com scripsit: > (Send finger faster than typing one) > Nick: > > 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