A N D R E W S C H E L L I N G
_______________________________________THE CAMP AT EL MOCHO
A NOH PLAY
CHARACTERS
SHITE, an old man with a bandana wrapt around his mad bush of gray hair. He is an apparition of
JAIME DE ANGULO, a lokapala or spirit of place, the spirit of the hills at Big Sur.
WAKI, a traveler with an interest in folk-lore. He has walked with a backpack from the hot springs and Buddhist retreat center at Tassajara, which lies north and east, far into the rugged manzanita covered hills behind Monterey .
SECOND SHITE, or the SHITE in his second apparition, Jaime de Angulo's spirit, which is clad in a cover of bearskin similar to those worn by bear doctors among the California tribes.
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