I have always been fascinated by mythology and folk tales of all kinds. When I was a teenager, I devoured every book on mythology that I could get my hands on, mostly in the Greco-Roman traditions as those were what my local libraries stocked. Later, after wandering through other majors, I finally settled on archaeology…Continue reading Two Cherokee Myths Used in the Sunshine Walkingstick Series
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Painter Tales
By popular demand (of four people in the Facebook group), here are some tales of panthers, also called mountain lions and cougars. For me, the tales have a distinct beginning, and that beginning is with Foxfire, specifically the issue of Foxfire Magazine that gathered tales of haunts and haints and other folktales of the southern…Continue reading Painter Tales