Evaluation:
Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Cherokee Formula Poems', 1.
Extract

Cherokee Formula Poems
Cherokee formula poems were considered to be useful to a person's life. They were meant to make a person's life easier by making another person fall in love with them or to a certain extent to kill someone else. Obviously the person with the misfortune to die due to a formula poem was not on the "easy" side of the poem. What is very surprising is that the Cherokees believed that these things would really happen to someone else. Of course they were not as evolved scientifically as we are today, so this was a way of life for them. I can only wonder what the rule…

Atlants