| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 2965 |
| QUOTATION: | The Apache have a legend that the coyote brought them fire and that the bear in his hibernations communes with the spirits of the “overworld” and later imparts the wisdom gained thereby to the medicine men. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Administration in the State of Arizona, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943). Arizona: A State Guide (The WPA Guide to Arizona), p. 156, in “Folklore and Folkways,” Hastings House (1940). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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