semi-myth

Updated: May 11, 2025

This is the ancient way of the Indian; Rolf had often heard of it as a sort of semi-myth; never before had he seen it, and so far as he could learn from the books, it took an hour or two of hard work, not a few deft touches and a few seconds of time.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Rolf in the Woods

This was Rolf's first sight of a fisher, and he examined it as one does any animal or man that one has so long heard described in superlative terms that it has become idealized into a semi-myth. This was the desperado of the woods; the weird black cat that feared no living thing. This was the only one that could fight and win against Kahk.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Rolf in the Woods