Reading Notes: Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Part B

It's really funny to me how most of the folk stories that we read use animals as the main or supporting cast with human qualities. Sometimes when they are telling the story I imagine "crow" not actually being a crow, but a person with the name Crow. Wind is another example from The Children of Cloud. I wonder if the author was trying to say that there was a man who controlled all wind, or if there was only wind at the house. Either way I don't really understand how a cloud can have a child unless they mean that his children were literally lightning and thunder.

Notes on The Children of Cloud from Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest 

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