Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929)
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- Girl had a dog whom she loved
- Dog slept by her feet, at night turned to human form and slept next to girl, before morning would turn back to dog
- Girl became pregnant (from dog) family was angry, torched the house and left the girl
- Father killed dog, girl gave birth to 5 pup (4 males and 1 female)
- Dogs were singing and dancing in human form when the mother was away collecting clams
- tore down the dog blanket, were stuck in human form
- Males learned to use a bow and were great hunters, able to kill whales
- Killed so many, crow went and told the old village
- They did not believe until one of her birds choked on a piece she had stolen
- They then believed and went back to the old village and the sons became chiefs
- Hunter who loved deer, had 2 wives, one bore children one did not
- While hunting, saw tracks of deer, followed them and ran into a woman and her child
- Asked if she had seen deer, she said no, so continued to follow the tracks lead to no where
- Went back to woman and said she must have seen the deer, the man followed the woman because she said she had been waiting for him
- The two went to her village, and all saw that she had brought her husband
- The two became husband and wife, and slept in the same bed but not with each other
- Killed his two brother in laws, missed them
- The flesh was eaten and the bones were thrown into the river
- Came back to life when thrown in water, revived
- Deer people lived by hunting and killing each other and then reviving
- Hunter became buck
- wife gave birth to son
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