Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Week 10 Reading B: Native American Marriage Tales


READING B:
So the girl and her dog had some puppies together. As a result, the family decided to leave her for dead, but a crow saved her. Then she found out the dog babies could turn into humans and taught them how to hunt. They got really good at it, and the village people decided to return. Wow. 
There was a deer hunter who had wives and children. He came across some tracks and met a woman who basically forced him to be her husband. How does that happen? So he left his wife and kids for a deer woman. Then he went and hunted for his deer family. It turns out the deer are cannibalistic and eat their own kind. But wait.. they revive back into deer at the end. 
The stories continues and the couple decide to return to the land of people. They had a son and he became a great hunter and taught the people how to hunt deer. 

A deer and its young.
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There was a really poor girl who had some turkeys and told them of her problems. The wonderful turkeys understood her and wanted to help her. 
This part of the story is similar to the story of cinderella. Except the turkeys were the mice. This part was quite cute. I hope that she will not betray the love of her turkeys in the end. 
It turns out she did betray them. Sort of. She ended up coming back too late from the festival and they left her. She was reduced to what she was before. 
So there was a girl who had an evil stepmother. She ventured out and wanted to run away but ran into a lodge with four men who were her relatives and they gave her some strawberries, new clothes, and the power to spit gold. The stepmother sent her own daughter to try to get the same, but the girl was stuck up and so they gave her the power to spit out nasty toenails. LOL! 
So she who spat gold got married to the chief's son and got pregnant twice. Both of the time, the stepmother was the midwife and she killed both of the infants and gave the girl a cat and a snake as her "babies." How twisted. Then she told the husband to kill his wife and he agreed.
The bride's children had actually survived because her dog ended up rearing them. However, the stepmother found out and poisoned the children. The dog then went to the sun to try to revive them. 
He managed to save the children and they revived. One had a sun mark on his forehead, and the other, a moon mark. Then the truth was revealed in the end and justice was served! I'm glad there was a happy ending. 

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