Famous Last Words: Getting Ready for my Future

 

A quote we used to use with youth I worked with. (Source: ourmindfullife.com)

So, this week has gone by super fast. It seems like since we are at the end of the semester, everything is super fast or super slow. Depends on the day for me, I guess.

The readings for the week went okay for me. I read the Faerie Queene unit this week. I will confess though, the story seemed to kind of drag on and on. I got to the end and wanted to see everything work out for the characters, but it left a lot of mystery about Lady Amoret. So that's what I did my story on. I had a lot of ideas about how I wanted the story to go, but with keeping it under 1000 words, I wrote about just her capture and what that may have looked like. That has probably been the biggest challenge for me this semester as a writer. I have had to learn to be more concise. In my other classes I am used to having to fill word count requirements for papers and assignments, so this has carried over into my other writing. I think I am improving on it though. I really appreciate Laura's and my classmates' help, as well. I had the chance to read some other people's writing earlier in the week because on Monday I was catching up during the grace period. My interest was really piqued in writing microfiction and six-word stories. Hopefully, I get a chance to try it out before the class ends. 

My other classes are going well. I am juggling everything quite nicely. *knocks on wood* I really cannot wait for the semester to be over though. I already have a job and am looking forward to starting my career. I am really excited to put the skills I have learned over the last 4 years in college to use to help people. 

Next week, I hope to start wrapping things up. I only have one final to do for one of my classes, so that's going to be a lot less stressful than usual. I am also apartment hunting and will hopefully find somewhere soon. Finally, my last week at my current job is also next week. I am looking forward to finishing things in this chapter of my life and moving on to the next. 

Week 13 Story: Lady Amoret's Capture

 The Capture of Lady Amoret

How I imagine Lady Amoret might look. (Source: Tumblr)

The sun started to set and the shadows started to lengthen when Britomart decided to stop for the night. She, her horse, and Amoret were all weary from their long journey and all the trials they had faced. They currently were wandering through a desert to get to the forest that lay on the other side of it. But it was vast and would take days to travel through. Britomart found a sheltered place in a vacated cave that had the evidence of past travelers being there. 

"Let's stop and rest here for the night. We are both weary and the sun is setting. We will make little to no progress in this state if we continue and do not rest," Britomart stated.  

There was cut dried kindling and wood stacked from past travelers just inside the entrance to the cave. Both Britomart and Amoret said a silent thanks to their gods for the strangers' gift.

 "If you will help me get the fire going I shall cook some of the meat we still have left from the last hunt you took," Amoret offered. Britomart agreed and they both got to work on preparing a small meal for the two of them.

Once they had eaten they were sitting around the fire almost fast asleep, when Amoret thought she heard rustling outside of the cave. "Did you hear that, my friend?" Amoret nervously looked over to Britomart who was almost asleep. 

"Hmm? Oh, it was probably an animal that smelled the food. Not to worry though, the fire will keep them at bay. Wild animals won't dare come near a fire like this and we are both behind the fire. That is why I made it near the entrance of the cave." Britomart dismissed Amoret's worries and fell fast asleep. 

'Well, she's probably right, I am just being paranoid. I need to rest while I can. I want to get back to Scudamour, my love as soon as possible.' She thought to herself as she too fell fast asleep. 

Little did Amoret or Britomart know, that someone from the tourney had followed them. Sir Satyrane, furious at being bested by not just the Savage knight, but also the Knight with the Ebony Spear, had followed where the strange knight was taking the fair lady he won. At first, Satyrane thought to some distant castle but was outraged to overhear and see the truth about Britomart and Amoret. 'I shall show them what happens when you try to make a fool of me! Lady Amoret is rightfully mine, husband or no. I will have her!' He thought with fury. 

So, Satyrane continued following them until they stopped for the night. He knew that he was no match for Britomart and would lose against her if it came to combat. So he waited until their exhaustion overtook both of them and put his plan into action. 

He swiftly but quietly scooped up the Lady Amoret from where she was laying and quickly made haste to his horse. The lady was so exhausted from all of her previous adventures and capture from the Enchanter, she never even stirred. 

She awoke to the sun shining in her eyes and laying against who she thought was Britomart on horseback. She was quite disoriented and wondered why Britomart did not just wake her earlier. But even as she thought this, she slowly came to her senses and realized it was not Britomart she leaned against. 

"Oh, you're awake, lovely. My lady, we shall be home shortly." Satyrane smirked to himself as he spoke to her. 

"Home? Sir Satyrane? What are you doing? Why have you taken me from my dear knight? I demand you bring me back at once!" She pounded on his back to no avail. He never stopped or even slowed the horse carrying them down.

He chuckled sinisterly to himself. "I know the evil trick you and this Britomart played on the rest of us. But I am no fool! You are rightfully mine and shall be my wife! You will grace me with your beauty all of my days," He said dreamily. 

Amoret fought as hard as she could to get him to let her go. She planned and tried many escapes but she could not beat him. She prayed that Britomart and her love, Scudamour would come to her rescue and soon. She shivered to herself to think what was awaiting her at Satyrane's castle. 

A/N:

First off, thanks for reading! While reading the tales of Britomart this week, I got so frustrated. It took forever for Britomart to find Artegall and for her "happily ever after," so to speak. Then we have her best friend, Amoret, who was separated from her husband by a wicked Enchanter who Britomart saved her from. So when Britomart finds Artegall and Scudamour, we find out that Lady Amoret had been taken and Britomart had no clue about who had taken her or to where. The last story in the unit said Amoret's story was for another book, and let me just say, I was super disappointed to not be able to read at least something about her! So that's why I decided to write my story post about her capture at least. Satyrane seemed very arrogant to me in the original story and I wouldn't put it past him to do something like this for revenge. Actually, a lot of people seemed to be getting revenge on each other during this unit, so it fits well with the story to me. I didn't want to give too much detail and wanted to leave some mystery, as I haven't yet read any of her actual story (if there is one) and I just like leaving my readers wanting more. Hope you enjoyed it! Feedback is always welcomed! 

Bibliography:

Stories from the Faerie Queene by Mary McCleod, with illustrations by A.G. Walker (1916). 

Faerie Queen Reading Notes: Part B

 Faerie Queen Notes

Britomart by Cristian Gonzalez (Source: Reddit )

The Enchanted Chamber

-What Britomart Saw in The Enchanted Chamber 

-Shrill trumpet 

-"brave Princess" 

-"Then stepped forth a grave-looking person, in costly raiment, and bearing in his hand a branch of laurel."

-name of man was Ease 

-iron wicket

-joyous band 

-Fancy, Desire, Doubt, Danger, Fear, Hope, Dissembling, Suspicion, Grief, Fury, Displeasure, Pleasure, Spite, and Cruelty all personified. 

-Love was also personified and was "tyrant of the castle" and had a winged figure 

-also- Reproach, Repentance, Shame, Strife, Anger, Care, Unthriftiness, Loss of Time, Sorrow, Change, Disloyalty, Rioting, Poverty, Death-with-Infamy

-all returned to the inner chamber they had come from 

A Wicked Enchanter 

-How Britomart Rescued a Fair Lady from a Wicked Enchanter

-Britomart tried to open the door to the inner chamber and couldn't because it was closed by magic

-no one but the enchanter and the lady was in the inner chamber. her hands were tied up and a chain around her waist

- the enchanter was drawing figures in blood trying to use magic to make her love him

-Britomart didn't kill him because he had to undo the spell over the lady 

-Glauce and Scudamour left to look for more help, so when Britomart and Amoret came out, they weren't there 

Strange Meetings 

-What Strange Meetings Befell on the Way

-As they were looking for the knight and Glauce, Amoret shared the story of how she was captured with Britomart

-her and Britomart became best friends 

-Duessa and Ate-treacherous and in disguise 

-Strife

The Golden Girdle

-How Britomart did Battle for the Golden Girdle

-last day of the tournament 

-Knights of Maidenhood

-The Savage Knight- Sir Artegall, The champion of justice 

-Britomart beat all the other knights

-Girdle of Florimell- wearer said to be peerless

The False Floimell

-How the Golden Girdle was Awarded to the False Florimell

-Snowy Lady- impersonating the Lady Florimell

-"Unlucky maid, to seek her enemy! Unlucky maid to seek far and wide for him whom, when he was nearest, she could not discover because of his disguise!"

The House of Care 

-How Sir Scudamour Came to the House of Care

-Scudamour wants revenge of Britmoart b/c Ate filled his heart with jealous rage 

-Care- a blacksmith by trade, ragged and dirty appearance 

-6 servents who were strong men 

Two Knights

-How the "Savage Knight" met the "Knight with the Ebony Spear"

-Scudamour and Artegall meet

-they both agreed to help seek revenge on Britomart

-Britomart fought both and won

How Britomart Ended her Quest

-Britomart and Artegall are made known to each other

-Glauce makes everyone make amends

-Amoret is missing

Bibliography-

Stories from the Faerie Queen by Mary McCleod, with drawings by A.G. Walker (1916).

Faerie Queen Reading Notes: Part A

 Faerie Queen Notes

Britomart walking into the fire. (Source: www.oldbookillustrations.com )

Sir Guyon

-"How Sir Guyon met a Champion mightier than himself"

-Acrasia- the wicked enchantress, captured

-he traveled with Prince Author- (possible connection with king Arthur later???)

-traditional chivalry and knight cade

-saw another knight with a golden lion on the shield 

-Guyon wanted to be the one who fought the knight 

-Guyon fell off his horse because of an enchanted spear he was holding 

-knight was actually a maiden 

-maiden was actually the famous Princess Britomart, daughter of Ryence, King of South Wales.

-she was trying to find Artegall- the champion knight of justice

-she saw him in a magic mirror Merlin gave to her father

-definite connections to Arthur 

-traveled and fought together, when they lost to one another they were graceful about it 

How Britomart Fought with Six Knights 

-a milk-white pony rushed past them with a lady on its back

-Florimell- name of the lady on the pony

-Arthur and Guyon started to fight the woodman chasing her

-Britomart found a "stately castle" 

-she saw one knight fighting six others on the plain that was in front of the castle

-Britomart ran to help

-story reads like a fairytale 

-"There dwells within this castle a fair lady whose beauty has no living rival. She has ordained this law, which we approve: that every knight who comes this way and has no lady of his own, shall enter her service, never to leave it. But if he has already a lady whom he loves, then he must give her up, or else fight with us to prove that she is fairer than our lady."

-Britomart won, entered the castle 

Britomart in Castle Joyous 

-Lady of Delight and Castle Joyous 

-the lady always satisfied her own desires no matter what

The Magic Mirror

-How Britomart Looked into The Magic Mirror

-explains to her companion knight that she is traveling and disguising herself as a knight to seek adventure but also find Artegall

-lied about how she felt about Artegall to hide her feelings from the other knight 

-"These words sank into Britomart's heart and filled her with rapture, but still, she would not let her companion see it."

-mirror was round and hollow like a globe

The Cave of The Magician Merlin

-How Britomart went to the Cave of the Magician Merlin

-saw Artegall in the mirror and was plunged into grieving thinking that she would never see him again

-went to Merlin to try to find out where Artegall was

Britomart's Quest

-How Britomart Set Forth on Her Quest

-the nursemaid helps her to come up with a plan to sneak away to the Faerie Queen's land to find Artegall

The Castle at the Churl Malbecco

-How Britomart Came to the Castle at Churl Malbecco

-a great storm 

-churl-an impolite and mean-spirited person

-the churl refused to let Britomart into his castle away from the storm

-he eventually let her and other knights into the castle where they all shared stories

How Britomart Walked Through Fire

-saw a giant chasing a man

-wandered into the forest to find the giant and both got separated

-Britomart found a sobbing knight

-knight told her that his lady love had been taken by an evil enchanter 

-she vowed she would rescue her or die with her 

-found a great magical fire at the entrance of the castle

-Britomart's boldness helped her to pass the fire 

-castle was richly decorated 

Bibliography-

Stories from the Faerie Queen by Mary Mcleod, with drawings by A. G. Walker (1916). 

Week 12 Lab: Six-Word Memoirs

 Six-Word Memoirs

Blank card, ready for a new story. (Pixabay)

So, for this week's story lab, I read up on NPR's website about six-word memoirs. I really liked this concept. I have seen it on social media a lot, but have never tried it myself. I think it makes story-telling even more meaningful. You only have six words, to sum up everything you are feeling or thinking. This makes the six words you string together much more valuable than the normal-sized novel or story you would write to explain a whole scenario or concept. The most intriguing ones for me were ones that tried to sum up their whole life's experience. I think it really resonated with me and how I want to be in my writing. I want it to be valuable and mean something. I think I would like to do a microfiction of my favorite fictional characters and do a six-word story or memoir for each of them. I think it would be very entertaining and will definitely be something I will be looking forward to doing for this class. This activity will help me to become a better, more creative, and concise writer in my opinion. I am looking forward to the challenge of starting to write microfictions like the six-word story.  

Celtic Fairy Tales Reading: Part B

 Celtic Fairy Tales

Cover of the "Celtic Fairy Tales" book. (Source: Mythology Untextbook Unit )

King O'Toole and His Goose

-"OCH, I thought all the world, far and near, had heerd o' King O'Toole — well, well, but the darkness of mankind is untellable!"

-owned the churches

-loved hunting

-had a pet goose that entertained him when he got old and couldn't hunt anymore

-Saint Kavin

-Saint Kavin says will make the goose good as new if the king will give him the land she flies around after shes better

The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire

-Fairy of Gannon and the Laughin Goblin

-asked the king of Erin to marry his daughter

-king told him that if he could find out what made the goblin stop laughing he could marry her, if he didn't, he would behead him

-fairy starts working for the goblin

-Land of the Giant

-five-headed giant 

Beth Gellert

-prince Llewelyn had a greyhound named Gellert

-called for Gellert but he never came

-went hunting but came back angry

-when he came back, found the dog covered in blood

-went to sons nursery and saw chaos

-"Monster, thou hast devoured my child," he drew out his sword and plunged it in the greyhound's side, who fell with a deep yell and still gazing in his master's eyes."

-Beth Gellert- "Grave of Gellert"

The Tale of Ivan 

-Cornish Tale

-Market Jew- nothing to do with Jews, "Marghas Yow,"-means Thursday Market

-Llanlavan Chyannor

-3 pounds for a year's wages at the farm for Ivan

-"Never leave the old road for the sake of a new one."

-"Never lodge where an old man is married to a young woman."

-"Honesty is the best policy."

Andrew Coffey

-whole barony-repeated 

-quiet decent man

-got lost in the woods and found a cabin

-heard his name being called

-"better see, than be seen"

-dreamed the whole ordeal

Brewery of Eggshells

-Welsh changeling story

-Place of Strife

-"old elves of the blue petticoat"

-"Wise Man of Llanidloes, for he knew everything and would advise her what to do."

-"So she went back into the house, seized the children, and threw them into the lake, and the goblins in their blue trousers came and saved their dwarfs and the mother had her own children back and so the great strife ended."

Bibliography-

Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, with illustrations by John D. Batten (1892). 

Celtic Fairy Tales Reading: Part A

 Celtic Fairy Tales

Silver-Tree in the glen. (Source: The Untextbook )

Connla and The Fairy Maiden 

-Connla of the Fiery Hair

-Conn of the Hundred Fights

-Plains of the Ever-Living- "Where there is neither death nor sin"

-Hill Folk

-interesting names 

-old language 

-only Connla saw the Fairy Maiden 

-Plain of Pleasure- Moy Mell

-Boadag is king

-"Oh, come with me, Connla of the Fiery Hair, ruddy as the dawn with thy tawny skin. A fairy crown awaits thee to grace thy comely face and royal form. Come, and never shall thy comeliness fade, nor thy youth, till the last awful day of judgment."

-Coran-Druid

-"by woman wiles and witchery"

-Coran got rid of the maiden and the maiden threw an apple at him

-Connla ate only from the apple and ate and drank nothing else for a month, his longing for the fairy maiden grew

-"Tis a glorious place, forsooth, that Connla holds among short-lived mortals awaiting the day of death. But now the folk of life, the ever-living ones, beg and bid thee come to Moy Mell, the Plain of Pleasure, for they have learnt to know thee, seeing thee in thy home among thy dear ones."

-maiden called druid "false black demon"

-curragh-a canoe

The Field of Boliauns

-lady-day - Feast of the Annunciation- angel Gabriel told Mary of Jesus' birth

-Tom Fitzpatrick

-"clacking sort of noise"

-"stonechatters"

-brown pitcher that might hold a gallon and a half of liquor 

-Leprachaun description

-"They say a body must never take their eyes off them, or they'll escape."

-good beer in the pitcher

-made beer out of heath

-boliaun-pot

The Horned Women

-Witch of One Horn

-Witch of Two Horns

-12 women all with horns, last had 12 horns

-Mistress of house felt near death from witchs' spell

-"The mountain of the Fenian women and the sky over it is all on fire."

-Slievenamon- their main home 

-the Spirit of the Well

-feet-water

-feet-water, beam, and cake all talk back to the witches

The Shepherd of Myddvai 

-Black Mountains in Caermarthenshire lies the lake known as Lyn y Van Vach

-3 maidens from lake

-shepherd fell in love with one of the maidens

-maiden said she would marry him and be with him but he couldn't strike her 3 times (familiar to other stories I've read)

-sons became Meddygon Myddvai, the physicians of Myddvai

The Sprightly Tailor

-the great Macdonald

-told tailor to make trews at night in a haunted church

-ghost appears

-the "fearsome thing" ran after the tailor after he left the church and gave chase

Munachar and Manachar 

-starts off like an original fairytale

-inanimate objects talking (rod,axe,flag,water, butter, milk)

-talking animals (deer, hound, cat, cow)

-repetitive, always adding a new character 

- threshers, miller

-Manachar bursts before Munachar can get everything he needs to hang him on a gad

Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree

-starts with "Once upon a time.."

-silver-tree is mother, gold-tree daughter

-trout in the glen they go to tells silver-tree that her daughter is prettier than her

-a prince from far off ask to marry gold-tree and the king approves

-king gave her the heart and liver of a he-goat instead

-siler-tree begs king for a ship and they go visit their daughter

-gold-tree locked herself in her room when they came

-mother teicked her and stuck her finger with poison that killed her

-prince didn't bury her, but locked her in her room where she was

-prince marries again and second wife finds the room where gold-tree is

-she takes the poison out of her finger and gold-tree lives again

-prince keeps both wives

-repetitive

-"The prince and his two wives were long alive after this, pleased and peaceful. I left them there."

Bibliography-

Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, with illustrations by John D. Batten (1892). 

Week 11 Reading Notes Part B: Native American Marriage Tales

 Marriage Tales Part B

Deer running through the forest. (Source: Pixabay)

The Dog-Husband

-tamanous-" spirit power"

-Quinault tale

-young girl who had a dog

-dog slept at foot of her bed

-every night dog would turn into a man and lie with the girl and then turn back to a dog in the morning

-girl becomes pregnant

-parents were ashamed, all the people moved, and left the girl to die 

-Crow had pity on her

-Coals between two clamshells, hear crackling, and see fire

-had 5 dog pups, 4 males 1 female

-heard singing from the house

-caught pups in human form 

-taught boys how to hunt

-made them bathe every day to get tamanous for whale hunting 

-got so many whales beach stank with them

-Crow visited and then told the people who ran away about children and girl

-people went back to village and the boys were chiefs

The Youth Who Joined The Deer

-Nlakapamuk tale

-great deer-hunter

-constantly thought of deer

-2 wives, one son

-see child and woman at the end of deer tracks 

-"You need not trouble yourself about the tracks. For a long time, I have loved you and longed for you. Now you shall go with me to my house."

-hunter could not resist attraction or following her

-"You must not worry or think that you are doing wrong. You shall be my husband, and you will never regret it."

-went underground

-found other people who were dressed in deerskin clothing

-"You are my husband, and will sleep with me. You may embrace me, but you must not try to have intercourse with me. You must not do so before the rutting season. Then you may also go with my sisters. Our season comes but once a year, and lasts about a month. During the rest of the year we have no sexual connections."

-deer people lived by hunting and killing each other for food, but came back to life when thrown into the water

The Youth Who Joined The Deer (Cont.)

-turned into a deer for rutting season, others beat him

-people gave him large antlers to win in fighting

-went back to hunters people

-"For eight days you must prepare yourself by washing in decoctions of herbs."

-deer son teaches other son how to hunt and to throw deer bones in the water

-son from the deer became human and the hunter became a deer

The Girl and The Turkeys

-Zuni tale

-Salt City

-Wealthy people owned large flocks of turkeys

-a little tumbledown, single-room house, wherein there lived alone a very poor girl

-the only thing she owned was turkeys

-turkeys loved her

-Dance of the Sacred Bird

-never allowed to participate

-turkeys can understand the girl

- "Now, listen well, for I speak the speech of all the elders of my people: If you will drive us in early this afternoon when the dance is most gay and the people are most happy, we will help you to make yourself so handsome and so prettily dressed that never a man, woman, or child amongst all those who are assembled at the dance will know you, but rather, especially the young men, will wonder whence you came, and long to lay hold of your hand in the circle that forms around the altar to dance."

The Girl and the Turkeys (Cont. and end)

-"No one knows how much happiness and good fortune may come to you"

-"took turkeys home and gave them her clothes to restore

-made all her clothing looked white and neat and pressed

-turkeys cleaned her too

-"O maiden mother, leave open the wicket, for who knows whether you will remember your Turkeys or not when your fortunes are changed, and if you will not grow ashamed that you have been the maiden mother of Turkeys? But we love you and would bring you good fortune. Therefore, remember our words of advice, and do not tarry too long."

-"Whence comes this beautiful maiden?"

-forgot turkeys

-"It is as we might have expected. She has forgotten us; therefore is she not worthy of better things than those she has been accustomed to. Let us go forth to the mountains and endure no more of this irksome captivity, inasmuch as we may no longer think our maiden mother as good and true as once we thought her."

-turkeys ran away high into the mountains

-"After all, the gods dispose of men according to as men are fitted, and if the poor be poor in heart and spirit as well as in appearance, how will they be aught but poor to the end of their days?"

The True Bride

-Nlakapamuk tale 

-white man who had a wife and daughter

-first wife died, man remarried and had another daughter

-stepmother was always mean to the first daughter

-stepmother sent out the girl to get berries in winter

-girl left with food in her basket and was going to wander until she died

-found a lodge with four young men

-young men were relatives but she didn't know it 

-told them about stepmother sending her out for berries 

-they gave her a shovel and scraper and told her to remove snow from the house

-found that the roof was covered with fresh strawberries 

-asked what they could do for her

-she said she was poor and had no clothes, they told her to spit and spittle turned into a gold nugget

-made shoes and dress

-stepmother was angry when she saw all the things that the girl had

-stepmother told her daughter to follow elders footsteps in the snow

-came to the lodge and the brothers gave her food and asked why she was traveling 

-told her to do the same for berries 

-asked her to spit but she was too vain and haughty

-when younger spat it turned into smelly toenails 

-brothers refused to help her 

-stepmother not giving up messing with Girl-who-spat-gold

-"animal-birth slander"

-chief's son passed by and saw the elder girl

-chief and his son saw she spat gold and the chief told his son to marry her because she was valuable

-at wedding, the girl spat gold for guests

-She-who-spat-gold became pregnant

-husband said that stepmother and half-sister should help her have the baby

-stepmother made the baby fall into a hole and gave the girl a cat and said that was her child

-"Odd people have odd children."

-stepmother tricked her again the same way and gave her a snake for her baby

-stepmother convinced husband to kill the girl and they threw her overboard in the lake

-four brothers rescued her and turned her into a swan 

-She-who-spat-gold's dog took care of children

-stepmother poisoned them 

-dog took them to the Sun for help

-children came back to life with the Sun's spittle

-stepmother and half-sister hanged 

Bibliography-

Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929). 

Week 11 Reading Notes Part A: Native American Marriage Tales

 Marriage Tales 

Buffalo (Source: Pixabay)

The Piqued Buffalo Wife

-Blackfoot story

-young man fathers a buffalo cow's child

-the child sneaks into the other camps to play with the other children

-wanted to find his father 

-headman called all older man and the boy couldn't find his father 

-father was among the unmarried men of the camp

-boy brought his father to where his mother was

-buffalo cow became a woman and went home with her husband and child

-she warned her husband to not "strike at her with fire"

-struck at her with fire, she and the child turned into buffalo and ran away

- man covered himself in "buffalo-wallow" to try and find them

-was told he had to go through an ordeal to be reunited with his wife and child 

-the buffalo calf that was his son told him he would know it was him b/c he would hold up his tail

-man was trampled 

-found a piece of bone and brought him back to life

Bear-Woman and Deer-Woman

-Lassik story 

-grizzly bear and doe were both wives of chickenhawk

-grizzly bear kills the doe

-cooks her head in the fire

-the does children killed the grizzlys children

Splinter-Foot-Girl

-Arapaho story

-7 people on a journey on the war-path

-they went hunting to find food and one of the hunters cut his leg on a thorny plant

-his leg swelled up so much that it burst and a child came out of it

-the grew very fond of the child

-her name was Foot-Stuck-Child

-a buffalo wanted to marry her so sent a magpie with the message to the hunters

-they said no 

-eventually became his wife 

-had a hand-painted buffalo robe

Splinter-Foot-Girl (cont.)

-been a year since she has married buffalo

-blackbird said that the mole and badger can help the hunters get their daughter back

-finds a stone and asks for help, but it says its not strong enough

-they found a cottonwood tree they climbed to get away from the bull

-bull found her empty robe and was angry

-the bull and his herd track them

-they find the tree the girl is in and start attacking it

-the take of its bark and break their horns on it

-when the bull attacked the tree the last time he got stuck.

-the tree told the men to shoot him and kill him and then cover him with the pieces of wood that had fallen off

Splinter-Foot-Girl (End)

-the rock wanted to marry the girl and sent the magpie to tell her fathers

-the magpie warned that he was not a good man and to refuse him

-had to let the girl go but her fathers knew the mole and badger would help her

-mole and badger tricked the rock to fall into a hole they had made

-her and her fathers escape into the sky and live in a tent covered with stars

The Eagle and Whale Husbands 

-Greenland Inuit story

-2 girls were playing on a beach with eagle and whale bones

-one decided to marry an eagle, the other a whale

-an eagle came a took one girl to a high cliff

-she took the sinews of the birds he brought for her to eat and made a rope to escape

-she went back to her people where the eagle found her

-they tricked him to spread out his wings and shot and killed him'

-a whale took the other girl deep into the ocean and tied her to the bottom

-her brothers who were nearby built a boat to rescue her

-they got her back and the whale chased them

-when the whale got to shore, he turned into a piece of whalebone

The Fox-Woman

-Labrador Eskimo tale

-a hunter who lived on his own kept coming back to his home to find it cleaned and food ready and waiting for him

-he decided to watch and see who did it

-he saw a fox enter and thought it was about to steal food

-when he entered the house he saw a beautiful woman who was beautifully clothed

-he asked her why she did everything and she said as his wife it was her duty

-she had an odor that the man complained about, so she left

The Woman Stolen By Killer Whales

-Tahltan tale

-a fisherman caught a strange big fish and he had his wife kill it and cut it up to dry for food later

-when she dipped her hands in water to clean them, a killer whale grabbed her for revenge for killing his friend

-the shark offers to help get his wife back 

-the shark rescued the woman and fought the killer whales

The Rolling Head

-a Cheyenne tale

-a solitary-family lived alone

-husband painted the wife's face and body before leaving for hunting

-the woman went to a lake to get water

-met a snake who told her to come out to him and she did and did it every day her husband was gone

-the husband followed her to see what she was really doing at the lake

-the man saw his wife with the snake and killed them both

-he cut up his wife's meat and cooked it and fed it to their children

-the head of their mother chased the daughters

-the girls were taken care of by two panthers and two bears

-their father joined them again, but they regretted what he had done to them, so they made the lions kill him

The Bear-Woman

-Blackfoot tale

-a woman who had 7 brothers and one little sister

-she had many suitors but refused to marry

-mother was dead but she and her siblings lived with their father

-had a bear for a lover, but didn't want anyone to know

-her little sister followed her one day and found out about her lover and told their father

-father went out with other people and killed the bear 

-the elder sister scolded her younger sister for telling on her

-she told her little sister to go and get some flesh from the dead bear's paws

-little sister was upset because a dog's pups kept biting her when she left their lodge

-older  sis offered to paint her to look like a bear and then went to go get the meat

-older sis a powerful medicine woman

-little sis warns bros about big sis being able to turn into a bear

The Bear-Woman (Cont.)

-tricked the elder sister

-younger sister and brothers leave the country

-after killing their elder sister, they decided to live in the sky as stars

Bibliography

Tales of North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929).