The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes
CHAPTER XVIII
Darkness feared by Indians--Story-telling--Interminable length of tales--Variants--Myths--Sun and moon--Deluge traditions--Tribal stories--Amazons--White Indians tradition--Boro tribal tale--Amazonian equivalents of many world-tales--Beast stories--Animal characteristics--Difference of animal characteristics in tale and tabu--No totems--Indian hatred of animal world 236