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Posted In American Gods, Gaiman recounts a folktalk where fox and wolf decide that death should be permanent. Then wolf dies, and asks fox to bring him back. But he can't, because they have made death permanent. I have heard this tale twice now - once in American Gods and once with a Crow and Coyote... Does anyone know what tradition this beautiful myth is from and where I can find a longer written version of it?

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Posted Hide Post I've only heard it as an Amerindian story, and the story seems to stretchf rom the Tlinqit in the subarctic down to Brazil. It's very, very widespread, and as it's part of the oral tradition probably has its ultimate origins from the time before the crossing of the Bering Strait. __________ AJGraeme "You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking: if you ask for it, I have to let you have it." -Taylor Mali "Science is the foot that kicks magic square in the nuts." -Scratch Fury

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