coyotes etc

[Anthony Grant]

Dear All:

Regarding dogs, wolves, coyotes, etc. there's Allan Taylor's note about dogs and wolves and metaphotical extensions for theor names in a note in IJAL in 1985 in the 'Hamp Festshcrift'.  

In parts of the Pacific Northwest it was considered ill luck to mention the creature at certain times of the year.  Maybe this practice of avoidance was also found in part of the Plains and would explain the use of a noa term such as 'slasher' for it.

Anthony Grant
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