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herselftheelf
Unregistered User
(1/9/05 1:54 pm)
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native american faeries
i am a faerie fanatic but i rarely hear of native american faeries. i would like to learn more on this topic. does anybody know native american names for wood nymphs, water spirits, elves, or any other type of faerie. your help would be greatly appreciated since this is for a school project. kindest regards
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redtriskell
Registered User
(1/11/05 3:03 am)
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Re: native american faeries
Native American culture doesn't generally refer to its faerie type creatures as faeries. They are usually called something else. In the Northeast, they are the manitou- "little spirits" or "little mysteries" and refer to many similar types of natural spirits. ie- the spirits of trees, water, grass, rocks etc. Then there are the spirit people. Like Coyote and Raven and Bear and many others. For a great fiction experience that uses some of these motifs, I strongly recommend Terri Windling's "The Wood Wife" and pretty much anything of Charles DeLint's. Most particularly his short story collections "The Ivory and the Horn" and "Dreams Underfoot" Also there is a wonderful short story collection called "Tales from the Great Turtle" all about exploring Native American lore, myth, and traditions. Enjoy.
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Mary
Unregistered User
(1/11/05 9:30 am)
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Native American faeries
There's a good faery story by Native American writer Carolyn Dunn in The Green Man anthology edited by Datlow & Windling. Can't remember the name of the story, but it involves Deer Woman and some dangerous forest faery type creatures, all based on Cherokee mythology I believe. Deer Woman, as a faery creature, also appears in Terri Windling's children's book The Changeling, a slim little paperback about a fiddle playing boy and faeries in the mountains of South Carolina.
And I second the recommendation of Charles de Lint's books for Native American faery-type creatures, particularly Medicine Road, which has some of the same flavor as Windling's The Wood Wife. (And even a setting in common -- both books have musicians playing at a place called The Hole. Anyone know if that's a real place or a shared imaginary place?)
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