Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Week 10: Reading Notes: Part A: Native American Marriage Tales

Bear- Woman and Deer- Woman
Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929)
Grizzly Bear: Pexels
  • Grizzly bear and doe are wives to chickenhawk
  • Grizzly and doe checked one another for lice, grizzly had none and doe di
  • Grizzly bit off doe's head and took both piles of acorns
  • Burned the head in the fire, doe's children recognized it
  • The two fawn's teased the mother crizzly
  • They escaped over a river using a Crane's neck as a bridge
  • When Grizzly tried to do the same thing, Crane tricked her and she went floating in the river
Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929)
  • 2 girls playing with eagle bones and whale bones, said they would marry one of the two
  • Eagle swiped up one girl and a whale the other
  • Eagle took girl and gave her many small birds to eat, made a role of their wings, one day say a kayaker and wished for a boat to leave
  • Went back home, eagle searched for bride, shot in body
  • Other girl was tied to bottom of ocean by rope, and had nothing to do but pick lice from whales body
  • Girl escaped by boat with brothers
  • Whale realized and tried going after her and the boat 3 times
  • Last time, the boat made it to see and the whale was turned into a whale-bone

Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929)
Fox: Pixabay
  • Hunter had a home and would leave to see who would come and observe and take care of his home
  • One day left, but still observed his home
  • A fox went in, and he was curious
  • When he entered, he saw a beautiful woman with a fox's skin hanging up, claimed to be her husbands
  • The two lived together for a while, but she produced a foul odor
  • Took her fox skin back on and left the man, was never seen near man again


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