Making the Connection - Mythologies from Around the World

In the Costa Rican myth, “The Ox-less Cart” what plague crept toward the village?

• Black Death

• Covid

• Cholera

• Rickets

What mythological character in Venezuela also went by the name “The  Deadly Whistler?”

• Tanto

• Diablo Gato

• Zorro

• El Silbon

What literary device would this represent? 

“And moth- like stars were flickering out”

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

What two pieces of advice did the old woman tell Manyara in the African myth “Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters?”

• -Do not pick flowers along the way

  -Never litter in the forest

• -Be kind to your mother

  -Don't cross the road without looking both ways

• -Do not laugh at the grove of tree

  -Be polite to the man with his head under his arm

• -Don't eat after midnight

  -Make sure you don't curse

What were two of the stories Anansi went in search of?

• -Windmer the Wind God of the West

  - Sandelstone of the Sun located in the South

• -Onin, the python that swallows men whole

  -Osebo, the leopard with teeth like spears

• -Cackler the Crow of eye sight

  -Timon the Meerkat of many faces

• -Ebbing of the East with ears that can hear all

  -Nobi of the North with Knowledge above all

What mythological Latin American character sobbed endlessly?

• La Llorona

• La Tatiana

• La Bastina

• La Sandelfela

What African myth creature “pulled at the bed sheets too small to climb?”

• Tommyboy

• Tinkerbell

• Topsi

• Tokoloshe

What Latin region was “La Casa Matusita" from?

• Spain

• Peru

• Puerto Rico

• Venezuela

Why would the farmers make sure to return from tending their livestock before sunset in the village of Atuga?

• That is when the Werehyenas came out

• They did not like the dark

• This is when the skinwalkers stalked them

• They would not get dinner if they were not back before dark

What character from the Dominican Republic was beautiful but feet were backwards?

• La Cakecoda

• La Chinchilla

• La Chinko

• La Ciguapa