Whitebear Whittington or White Bear Whittington is a character that appears in American folktales. He sometimes appears as a bear that marries a human maiden, in folktales of the Animal as Bridegroom type, a set of tales related to Cupid and Psyche, in that a human maiden marries an animal that is human in disguise, breaks a taboo and loses him, and she has to seek him out.
Whitebear Whittington or White Bear Whittington is a character that appears in American folktales. He sometimes appears as a bear that marries a human maiden, in folktales of the Animal as Bridegroom type, a set of tales related to Cupid and Psyche, in that a human maiden marries an animal that is human in disguise, breaks a taboo and loses him, and she has to seek him out.
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