By the Fire : Sami Folktales and Legends.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (182 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- Moose, Lucky Reindeer, Reindeer Luck, and Wizardry -- The Sun's Daughter with the Tame Moose Herd -- The Sami Who Weren't Satisfied with the Moose -- The Giant Folk Who Had Tame Moose -- How the Sami Were Given Reindeer and Tents by the Underground Folk and How the Settlers Were Given Farms and Farm Animals -- The Old Woman Who Made Reindeer Herding Difficult -- The Sami Lad Who Married a Halde Girl and Was Given Lucky Reindeer Along with Her -- How the Sami Girl Tricked the Evil One -- The Sami Man and the Devil -- Stainak and the Sami Man Who Died -- The Sami Man Who Wanted His Dead Wife Back -- The Reindeer-Herding Ghost -- The Shoes Sewn from Human Skin -- The Wizardly Sami Girl -- Sickness Spirits -- The Sickness Spirit That Arrived on a Stick of Wood -- The Sickness Spirits That Froze in the High Mountains -- The Sami Woman Who Saw Fever and Another Sickness Spirit -- Murdered Children -- The Dead Child Who Came to Life Again -- Epper -- Animals -- How the Sami Got the Dog -- Dogs with Different Natures -- The Reindeer and Sheep Race to the Farmer's House -- The Bear That Carried Jesus over the River -- When God Doled Out Fat to the Animals -- The Fastest Animals -- The Woodpecker -- The Loon -- The Hazel Grouse -- How Mosquitos Came into the World -- Origins of Lice -- The Pike Fish and the Snake -- Dangerous to Sleep by a Juniper Bush -- The Woman Who Wanted to Help the Frog -- Snake Cure -- The Great Mother Frog -- The Fox Tricks the Bear and Makes a Sami Man Rich -- Folktales -- Njavisjædne and Atsisjædne -- The Daughters of Njavisjædne and Atsisjædne -- Atsisjædne Tars the Moon -- The Poor Lad Who Rescued the Princess -- Jerusalem's Shoemaker -- The Dog-Turk -- The Dog-Turk Lost His Prey -- Jættanas, Who Wanted a Sweetheart. The Boy Who Killed Stallo -- Stallo Plays Blind Man's Bluff -- Stallo Loses His Prey -- The Sami Man Who Got Away from Stallo in a Billy Goat Skin -- Stallo, Who Was Tricked -- Stallo's Man Trap -- The Trial of Strength -- The Sami Man Who Married a Stallo Girl -- Stallo Eats His Grandchild -- Russian Chudes and Other Enemies -- When the Sami Lived under the Earth -- The Russian Chudes between the Lakes -- The Dreadful Ravine -- The Russian Chudes Who Drove Headless -- The Legend of the Seven Sleepers -- The Blind Old Woman -- The Headland of the Murdered -- The Russian Chudes Who Were Blown Up -- The Sami Man Who Created a Storm -- The Sami Girls Who Escaped the Bandits -- The Sami Girls Who Stirred Up a Snowstorm -- "The South Wind Bangs against Bird Mountain" -- The King Believed That the Sami Were Animals -- The Sami Man Who Tricked the Enemies and Saved the Farmers -- How the Sami in the Hotag Mountains Killed the Enemies -- Tju'jaure -- When the Farmers Wanted to Stamp Out the Sami -- The Disguised Farmers -- Karin Wildstar -- Nuelesgiete -- Field Notes and Commentary -- Afterword. "Here They Can Still Tell Stories": Sami Folklore and the Storytellers of By the Fire -- Selected Bibliography.
9781452959566
Sami (European people)-Folklore. Folklore-Lapland. Legends-Lapland.