Week 10 Extra Reading [Native American Marriage Tales B]

The Dog Husband

• A woman had children with her dog who would turn into a man at night. Creepy.
• Her family was so disgusted by her that they. along with the rest of her people, decided to move away. 
• The crow took pity on her and decided to help her by telling her how to make fire.
• She eventually gave birth to four male and one female pups.
• She also finds out that they are able to become human and scold them to stay in that form. 
• The mother teaches them to hunt whales which gains the attention of the same raven. 
• The raven tells the others of the whales and come back. The sons become the chiefs of the village. 

The Youth Who Joined the Deer:

• A deer hunter followed a fresh track that led him to a woman and a child. The woman informs him that she had been longing for him for a while and to leave his wife and two children and marry her but could not have relations with her. Sounds like a great marriage. 
• He killed two deer for his family but it turns out to be his brother in laws.
• Turns out the ate their own kind but resurrected as deer. 
• The couple return to the land of the people and have a son who he teaches how to hunt deer. 

The Girl and The Turkeys

• There was once a poor woman who made her living raising turkeys. She loved the turkeys very much and treated them very well. Her kindness was much appreciated by the turkeys. 
• She really wanted to go to a festival but thought she was too ugly to go. Her turkeys helped her out. 
• This story reminds me of Cinderella. The turkeys hooked her up and asked her to not stay out too long. She went to the festival and danced with boys.
• Upset that their turkey maiden left, the turkeys left her captivity and the maiden went back to the poor woman she was, only now, without any turkeys.

The True Bride:

• A girl was so upset by her stepmother's attitude towards her that she leaves home.
• She wanders around and finds a home with four men. It turns out they were related to her. 
• She told them that she was poor so they gave her the power of spitting out gold. 
• She goes back to her house and her stepmother is jealous of her new powers. She sends out her own daughter to follow her tracks. She finds the house but she acted stuck up towards the men.
• When she returns to her mother she finds out that she spits out toenails. That is awesome.
• The girls ends up marrying a chief's son. She was named She-Who-Spat-Out-Gold. 
• The girl gives birth and has her stepmother as her midwife. She kills the babies and gives the woman a cat and snake as her children. 
• The stepmother tells him to kill his wife and marry her own daughter.
• The four men find out and save her life. They transformed her into a swan.
• The girl had a dog who took care of her supposedly dead babies. 
• The stepmother finds out and poison them but the children were saved by the dog once again. 
• The dog tells She-Who-Spat-Out-Gold's husband what happened. He had the stepmother and daughter publicly hung and took back his first wife. The lived happily ever after.