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Majicou
Registered User
(9/3/02 7:48:49 pm)
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South American Shapeshifters...
Greetings. I'm fairly new to the boards, stumbled across them searching
for my professor's asian classics site.(h.i.Fenkl)
After a quick search with the keywords jaguar and south america there didn't seem to be an mention of the south american shapeshifter myths on the boards.
I've only seen three works relating to the subject myself. Two short
stories and a full length novel. Interestingly enough they shared
elements with the Korean Fox Demon as well as the Japanase Kitsune
myth, a woman who fails the family or culture in some way. More
information soon to come.
Ciao
Wonderful site btw.
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Terri
Registered User
(9/3/02 9:21:12 pm)
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Re: South American Shapeshifters...
Have you read Ellen Steiber's story "The Shape of Things"? (Published in F&SF magazine, and reprinted in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror vol. 14.) It's a tale about contemporary American teenagers, but rooted in Guatamalan shape-shifting folklore. If I'm remembering correctly, I believe Ellen found Martin Prechtel's work on South American shamanism useful when she was researching the subject.
We've discussed the books and articles by your professor (Heinz Insu Fenkl) on this board in the past --
he's got a lot of fans here.
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swood
Unregistered User
(9/4/02 5:54:21 am)
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Jaguar Hunter
Scifi.com's Seeing Ear Theatre has an adaptation of a Jaguar shape shifter story. They also have Neil Gaiman's Snow Glass Apples (Snow White) that might interest board members.
I think I should mention, however, that many of the SET productions contain darkness and sexuality and may not be appropriate for everyone.
Here's the Jaguar Hunter link:
http://www.scifi.com/set/playhouse/jaguar/description.html
Sarah
P.S. Does anyone know what's happened with SET? They haven't done a new production in more than a year!
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Majicou
Registered User
(9/4/02 11:38:04 am)
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Re: Jaguar Hunter
Thank you both, very much for your quick replies.
The jaguar hunter was quite interesting.
Thanks again.
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swood
Unregistered User
(10/7/02 5:58:43 am)
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Jacques Tourneur
I just saw Jacques Tourneur's 1942 classic, _Cat People_ this weekend. It is about a Serbian jaguar shape-shifter. It's subtle and effective. I know this doesn't have the South American aspect, but thought I would mention it.
Sarah
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Judith
Berman
Registered User
(10/7/02 6:46:06 am)
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Serbian jaguars...
Jaguars ARE New World. Was the cat a European one, perhaps?
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Gregor9
Registered User
(10/7/02 8:57:33 am)
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Cat People
If I remember correctly, it's a black cat, panther-sized.
But it's been years since I saw that (really wonderful) film.
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swood
Unregistered User
(10/7/02 10:28:34 am)
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Jaguar
Sorry, panther is probably correct.
Sarah
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Majicou
Registered User
(10/7/02 12:40:43 pm)
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Greetings
I believe Munin and I may have that movie on dvd...
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