God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems

-In this episode: Two scary old wives tales about how idle children are kidnapped or possessed by the spirits lurking in the landscape about them.

-In this episode: The story of how two scrawny children survived being kidnapped by a giant, because they refused to eat the delicacies offered them by his wife. The story of how mosquitoes and other bloodsuckers were lured to the far north by the treacherous blandis

-In this episode: The story of Kari Woodencoat, which blends features of Cinderella with the perky insouciance of Pippi Longstocking. The desirable outcome is less attributable to magic than to persistence and hard work.

-In this episode: The Fox, the Bear and the Mountain Sami meet in a series of instructive transactions. We learn to tread the fine line between heedless trust and opportunity.

-In this episode: How the real people of many tribes have created ceremonies for hunting, nurturing, killing, and feasting; which have built and strengthened the relationship between us and the bears.

-In this episode: How the real people, from a combined sense of respect, bargaining, and expiation, have come to worship the bears; and how the bears have entered into partnership with us by carrying our messages to the Gods.

-In this episode: The brothers of the Giant's Daughter return from sea and are enraged to find her gone. After a stormy pursuit, they meet with a bad end in a barren place. She gives birth to the first of the real people.

-In this episode: The Son of the Sun comes into the Land of Giants and woos the Blind Giant's Beautiful Daughter. She helps him trick her father in a hand-wrestling match so that he can merit her hand in marriage.