Little Coyote
Crow · demigod · creation time · Recorded classification
Secondary trickster-companion; classed 'demigod'. Distinct from Old Man Coyote in those versions that separate the two Coyotes (Lowie 1918, 1935).
Domains
- trickery
Powers
- advise and contend with Old Man Coyote
Relations
- sibling: Old Man CoyoteCirape, 'little coyote,' is Old Man Coyote's younger brother in the Crow trickster cycle.Robert H. Lowie, Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians (1918) (primary)
- companion: Old Man CoyoteTravels with Old Man Coyote as comrade and foil through the trickster tales.Robert H. Lowie, Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians (1918) (primary)
Sources
- Círape, the lesser/younger Coyote, accompanies Old Man Coyote through the Crow creation as companion and rival.: Robert H. Lowie, 'Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians,' AMNH (1918). (ethnography)