The Peacock In The Sky

: SCRAPS OF FOLK-LORE.
: Aino Folktales

A cloudless sky has a peacock in it, whose servants are the eagles. The

peacock lives in the sky, and only descends to earth to give birth to

its young. When it has borne one, it flies back with it to the

sky.--(Written down from memory. Told by Penri, July, 1886, and by

Ishanashte, November, 1886.)





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Trees turned into Bears



The rotten branches or roots of trees sometimes turn into bears. Such

bears as these are termed payep kamui, i.e "divine walking

creatures," and are not to be killed by human hand. Formerly they were

more numerous than they are now, but they are still sometimes to be

seen.--(Written down from memory. Told by Penri, July, 1886.)



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