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Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 16:19:52 -0400
From: Andrea Steffen
Subject: Re: the moon receving tears






PS. I greatly appreciated the dead tree as nursery for the Pacific
Northwest story teller.
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From: "Christopher Maier"
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Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:40 AM
Subject: the moon receving tears




> Laura asked me for my source for the tale I paraphrased about an
> orphan who weeps on the moon, but before I was done reading the rest
> of my email I'd received 3 other requests for the source so I'll post
> it to the list.
>
> What I have in my quickdex file (an Ancient program for the mac which
> provides a simple roladex file for a computer- I use it for all sorts
> of quotes and notes on stories) is -
> L. Frobenius Volkmarchen der Kabylen, v. 1., Jena, 1921, p. 76
> I don't read German (though I recognize enough that I can tell that
> the title of the above is Folktales of the Kabylen people, so I'm
> sure I read a translation/reworking of the tale somewhere else but
> only wrote down the earlier source of the story.
> My memory is now whispering to me something about a collection of sky
> stories. The book had older library binding. . . (50's or 60's?)
> My these memory shreds be helpful! I believe this particular tale
> was titled "The First Tears."
>
> Christopher
>
> >Christopher, remarkable wonderful tale that also takes the image toward
> >a renewal. perhaps in a world of many stories, one helps the other. do
> >you have the source of the Morrocan tale? I feel very inspired and
> >nurtured by this conversation. Laura
> >
> >/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii;
> > name="storydevi.vcf"
> >
> >Content-Description: Card for Laura Simms
> >Content-Disposition: attachment;
> > filename="storydevi.vcf"
> >
> >Attachment converted: GreaterVehicle:storydevi.vcf (TEXT/ttxt) (00015B8D)
>
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