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Why In oral literature, might characters have generic names like Loon and Muskrat?

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Why In oral literature, might characters have generic names like Loon and Muskrat?

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Oral literature refers not to written, but to oral traditions, which includes different types of epic, poetry and drama, folktales, ballads. The names are taken from those folktales and old stories.