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The Vanishing Hitchhiker: The Ghost Who Just Wants to Go Home
The Most Widespread Ghost Story in America
The Myth of the Zuni Salt Woman
A Zuni tale about a sacred giver of salt whose presence depends on reverence and care
The Legend of the Apache Mountain Spirits (Ga'an)
How the Ga'an taught a people to live with the land and listen to the wind
The Myth of the Sauman Kar (Shadow People)
Yupik whispers of the corner-of-eye shadows that trace the edge of human life
The Myth of the Kushtaka (Shape-shifting Otter-men)
A deep, atmospheric retelling of the Tlingit legend of the Kushtaka—otter people who walk between water and land and take the souls of the drowned.
The Legend of the Water Babies of Pyramid Lake (Paiute)
A Paiute tale of small, eerie spirits whose cries drift across Pyramid Lake on moonlit nights
The Tale of the Ghost-Wife
A river-born legend of love that crosses the boundary between life and the land of the dead
The Story of the Chenoo (Ice Giant)
A Wabanaki tale of ice, hunger, and the fragile warmth that keeps a heart from freezing
The Tale of the Earth-Diver Creation Myth (Various Tribes)
A sweeping retelling of North American earth-diver stories, where animals plunge into primordial waters to raise the mud that becomes our world
The Story of the Sun Snarer (Trickster Tale)
How a clever trickster slowed the sun to lengthen the days and teach a people patience and cunning
The Arrow Chain to the Sky: Myths from Various Tribes
A pan-tribal motif where a hero shoots arrows into the heavens to fashion a ladder to the upper world.
The Legend of the Star-Husband (Plains Tribes)
A mortal woman marries a star and must journey between sky and prairie to find a way back to the earth she loves.
The Tale of the Rolling Head (Various North American Tribes)
A widespread and terrifying folktale across many North American indigenous communities about a disembodied head that pursues and terrorizes its victims
The Story of the Underwater Panther (Great Lakes Tribes)
A richly woven retelling of the powerful water spirit of Ojibwe and Anishinaabe lore, a feline force with horns, scales, and a tail that rules the deep
The Myth of the Great Horned Serpent (Mississippian Culture)
A deep, illustrated retelling of the Great Horned Serpent — water, rain, and the underworld in Mississippian cosmology
The Tale of the Kokopelli
A desert flute’s song that carries rain, mischief, and the promise of new life across red sandstone and sagebrush
The Story of the Kachinas
Spirit beings of the Hopi who walk between sky and mesa to bring rain, counsel, and the rhythms of the seasons.
The Myth of the Hopi Emergence Story
A respectful, immersive retelling of the Hopi creation tale of emergence through the four worlds
The Tale of the Peacemaker and Hiawatha
How the Great Peacemaker and Hiawatha wove the Five Nations into the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
The Story of the Three Sisters (Corn, Beans, Squash)
An Iroquois agricultural legend of three inseparable sisters who must be planted together to sustain life
The Myth of the Stonecoats (Iroquois Giants)
An immersive retelling of the Stonecoats—legendary stone-skinned giants of Iroquois lore and the landscape they shaped
The Legend of the Flying Head
An Iroquois night-horror told under maple boughs, where a disembodied head hunts the living and remembers old debts.
The Story of the Tsul 'Kalu'
A Cherokee mountain giant, hunter of legends, and a tale of nature, wisdom, and survival.
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