"How Mosquitoes Came To Be": The Giant Lives On
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Every time I read the Tlingit Legend, "How Mosquitoes Came To Be," there
are certain questions that come to mind about where the legend came from and who
wrote it. The legend was first published in 1883 and later found by Richard
Erdoes, who included it in one of his publications, American Indian ....
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.... to kill a chicken, roast it and eat it, and a giant is bad
to "kill humans, eat their flesh, and drink their blood"(11)? Later in the
story we learn that the giant also liked to roast the hearts of humans. Another
puzzling question I asked myself is, if the giant was stabbed by the human and
"The monster screamed and fell down dead."(12), why did the giant still speak?
I know this is a legend or maybe just a fictionous story, but if the giant is
also a spirit then that would be helpful when ....
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