A Cross-Cultural Look at Child-Stealing Witches

One of the important figures in Lummi mythology is Ch'eni, the Giant Woman (Ts'uXaelech) who comes during the night and steals children. When I first read the story of Ch'eni, I was struck by the similarity of this story to the well-known German tale by the Grimm brothers, 'Hanse...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bird, Sonya
Other Authors: Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Language:en_US
Published: University of Arizona Linguistics Circle 2000
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/226602