num_pages: 218
description: When it comes to folklore and mythology what springs to mind are places like Greece Romania England and other European countries with their stories and images of Gorgons and Cyclopes Vampires Dragons and Faeries... But what about Canada? Canada has a deep and varied folkloric heritage based upon the legends myths and stories of the numerous Native nations who lived in Canada first that were built upon by each successive wave of immigrants from all over the world. The French brought tales of flying canoes the Devil and little goblins who took horses out for joyrides; the Germans gave us conjure doctors; the Italians the weather controlling folletti; the Russians the household sprites called domivye... For more than ten years amateur folklorist Todd H. C. Fischer has researched hundreds of creatures monsters strange locales heroes and spirits from all across Canada collecting them here for the first time in one comprehensive volume.
language: English
title: A Canadian Bestiary: : A Collection of People, Places and Beasties from Canadian Folklore, Cryptozoology, Native Religion, and Mythology
publisher: Stonebunny Press