Re: Color terms and Animal names

At 04:09 AM 11/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
>> No, not really. Rare, at least in settled areas, but there have been a few
>> reliable sightings, and of course a lot of rumors.
>
>The reason I thought it might be mythical is the way you said that it
>"steals children at night (unless they're at home in bed where they're
>supposed to be.)", made it sound like a sort of "boogyman".
>
Actually, that part isn't really mythicl either. I thought about this while
falling asleep last night. The etume likes easy prey, otherwise it eats
already dead things. Small children are about the size of a meal it wants.
However, as it is rare in settled areas, a number of parents do scare
children with stories about it, even though there isn't one anywhere in the
area. Kind of like scaring children with stories about man-eating tigers.
It happens, but not here.

Sylvia

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