"Most of them are more like folk heroes." He said, "Because we tell the stories about their mistakes the same as we tell about their triumphs. Like, like why bats sleep upside down?" He shrugged, "A long time ago, when history was still new and the Animals were People, Coyote was looking for a wife, Coyote had all sorts of women, and some men too, I suspect, but time came that he wanted to settle down."
He was smiling crookedly, he really did like telling the stories, and it had been a while since he'd had the chance, "And Bat told him: 'why don't you take the wife of Hawk Chief? Everyone knows Hawk Chief has been missing his wife is probably lonely'" He even did voices, "So, Coyote did, at least until Hawk Chief came back, and when Coyote told Hawk Chief who'd given him the advice, well, that didn't go over to well. So Bat and Hawk Chief had a fight, and Hawk Chief threw Bat aaaall the way into a juniper bush." He swung his arms as if hoisting someone out a door.
"Bat tumbled into that juniper bush, and his moccasins got stuck in the high whippy branches and try as he might he couldn't get himself down, and he tired himself out and he fell asleep." Another smile, "So that's why bats sleep upside down to this day."