What is a myth?

A myth (false story with hidden meaning, narrative, discourse, emotive word) refers to a story that has a very deep explanations or symbols for a culture in which an explanation is of divine origin, existence and development of a civilization.

What is a legend? A legend is a narrative oral or written, in prose or verse, more or less historical appearance, with greater or lesser proportion of imaginative elements. The frog is transformed into a tiger Kuartam A Shuar went hunting and unbelieving imitated the singing of Kuartam toad, which lives in trees. "Kuartam-tan-tan Kuartam" challenged him in the middle of the night, but nothing happened."Kuartam-tan, Kuartam-so, see if you eat me," he said and laughed. Do not, he had told his wife, because it can turn into a tiger. No one believed him. Kuartam, toad, became cat and ate it. Nothing was heard of the attack, but half the body of the Shuar had disappeared. At dawn, the girl decided to kill Kuartam. He reached the tree where the frog sang last night. Knocked down the tree that killed Kuartam, which had become a toad with a huge stomach. The woman quickly cut the belly of Kuartam Shuar and pieces of rolled on the floor. Revenge did not return her life to the Shuar but his wife could tell that it is never good Kuartam imitate. Far away from the dense forest they heard a new "kuartam-tan, kuartam-so" without knowing whether it was a frog or a Shuar awaiting a tiger.

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