Legends and debris flow disasters

Abstract

  There are cultures to anticipate for natural disasters in residential areas where disasters occur frequently. The facts of past disasters are often found through legends, traditions, place names and so on, because it is difficult to be preserved document records in these areas. In this paper, I introduce several examples to identify suffered areas from disasters using legends of red cattle, snakes, dragons and various proverbs, and also lead them to improve residents' awareness of disaster prevention and mitigation.