Reading Notes: Marriage Tales, Part A
This week I am reading stories from Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson. These are part of the Native American Marriage Tales unit.
These stories were wild!!! There were many parts of these stories that were absurd such as a girl being taking by an eagle and escaping by tying s string of baby bird's wings together to get down to a kayaker who took her home to her family (The Eagle and Whale Husbands).
One story, The Fox-Woman was of a fox that transformed into a wife when he went into this man's house, and she did all the chores. The man caught the fox one day and they decided to live together until the man questioned the fox-woman's oder. The fox was offended and left, never to return. This story was short and would be fun to rewrite later this week. If I were to rewrite it, I would use two different animals and come up with a lesson that is suppose to be learned from the story. Writing a story about an animal/human being with a human is such a foreign concept to me.
These stories were wild!!! There were many parts of these stories that were absurd such as a girl being taking by an eagle and escaping by tying s string of baby bird's wings together to get down to a kayaker who took her home to her family (The Eagle and Whale Husbands).
One story, The Fox-Woman was of a fox that transformed into a wife when he went into this man's house, and she did all the chores. The man caught the fox one day and they decided to live together until the man questioned the fox-woman's oder. The fox was offended and left, never to return. This story was short and would be fun to rewrite later this week. If I were to rewrite it, I would use two different animals and come up with a lesson that is suppose to be learned from the story. Writing a story about an animal/human being with a human is such a foreign concept to me.
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| Fox Woman Source: Pixabay Images |
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