Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Reading Diary - Native American Marriage Tales unit Continued

Native American Marriage Tales Unit: by. Stith Thompson 1929

The Dog Husband: A lady has a husband who is a dog but also changes into a human. They have children together and the wives family is really mad and kills her husband. The wife ends up having 5 dog babies, but later find out they can turn into humans also. She makes them stay in human form for the rest of their lives and they all live happily ever after.

The Youth Who Joined the Deer;

This was a very interesting story. I likes it a lot. I did not like the part about the hunter having 3 wives, and just leaving his other 2 wives even thighs he had a child with one of them. But I like the aspect of a person also being an animal, and killing the animal and bringing him back to life. I think of the idea of using all the parts of an animal and not letting anything go to waste.  After a deer is killed his bones are thrown back into the river and the deer comes back to life and changes into a human. I thought thes was just a very creative story. 

(Deer Bones - Wikimedia)


The Rolling Head:


This was a very very weird story. The wife goes swimming with a snake while her husband goes and hunts every day. The husband finally watches his wife when he leaves and sees her with he snake and kills the sale and his wife. he then feeds his wife to his children. The wives head starts align to the children and they get scared. Many other animals die and then the father gets killed by a lion at the end too. 

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