Cherokee Formula Poems

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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 rules to using a formula poem ...

... the poem to which the person is doing harm to (100). As I stated before, I believe that the poem does not include the name of the person enough times in order for the formula poem to come true. As one reads through the poem one can easily learn about Cherokee culture by their usage of words and phrases. The Cherokee culture as with any other culture is very interesting. By reading the poem, one can perceive that they had a concept of the human soul, the color of death and also a form of burial. On the very first line of the poem, the author uses the word soul and

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