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The Thing That Walked on the Wind Study Guide

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by August Derleth
About 14 pages (4,081 words)
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1. What are elementals? What religions are they a part of? What are the variations of the wind elemental in different cultures?

2. Are there any groups of people in the United States or Canada that worship forces of nature? Who are they?

What are their beliefs? What are their religious rites?

3. Have there ever been instances of entire villages or towns of people disappearing in North America? If you find one, give an account of what people know of its disappearance. (Hint: There was a seventeenth-century colony whose entire population disappeared. You many find other such instances by emphasizing frontier settlements.)

4. What are the aspects of "The Thing That Walked on the Wind" that Derleth derived from Lovecraft? What Lovecraft stories resemble "The Thing That Walked on the Wind"?.....

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The Thing That Walked on the Wind from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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