Chu-Bu and Sheemish

Chu-Bu and Sheemish are characters in a short story of the same name by Lord Dunsany. The tale was first published in The Book of Wonder (1912).

Plot summary

Chu-Bu is the accustomed resident in a temple where he is worshipped. Sheemish is a freshly carved idol added to the same temple one day—and from that moment the two deities taunt each other and attempt to outdo the other in achieving miracles. Eventually their combined efforts result in a minor earthquake which destroys the temple.^[1]

References

↑ Anderson, Douglas Allen (2003). Tales before Tolkien: the roots of modern fantasy. Del Rey/Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-45854-0. Retrieved 3 February 2011.

External links

Text of "Chu-Bu and Sheemish"
Chu-Bu and Sheemish public domain audiobook at LibriVox

Works by Lord Dunsany
List of works
Original collections	The Gods of Pegāna Time and the Gods The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories A Dreamer's Tales The Book of Wonder Fifty-One Tales The Last Book of Wonder Tales of Three Hemispheres The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens Jorkens Remembers Africa Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey The Fourth Book of Jorkens The Man Who Ate the Phoenix The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey The Last Book of Jorkens
Posthumous collections	At the Edge of the World Beyond the Fields We Know Over the Hills and Far Away The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms Time and the Gods The Collected Jorkens In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales
Drama	Five Plays The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays
Novels	Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley The King of Elfland's Daughter The Charwoman's Shadow The Curse of the Wise Woman
Poetry	Fifty Poems Verses Dedicatory
Short stories	"Chu-Bu and Sheemish" "The Hoard of the Gibbelins"
Miscellaneous	Joseph Jorkens

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