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Myths and Legends of the Sioux

Myths and Legends of the Sioux

McLaughlin, Marie L.

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ISBN10: 115364374X
ISBN13: 9781153643740
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Excerpt: ... under an oak tree. All day long he lay there gazing up into the tree, and when he was called for supper he refused, saying that he was not hungry, and for them not to bother him, as he would soon get up and go to bed. Far into the night he lay thus, and when he tried to arise he could not, as a small oak tree grew through the center of his body and held him fast to the ground. In the morning when the family awoke they found the girl had disappeared, and on going outside the sister discovered her brother held fast to the earth by an oak tree which grew very rapidly. In vain were the best medicine men of the tribe sent for. Their medicine was of no avail. They said: If the tree is cut down the young man will die. The sister was wild with grief, and extending her hands to the sun, she cried: Great Spirit, relieve my suffering brother. Any one who releases him I will marry, be he young, old, homely or deformed. Several days after the young man had met with the mishap, there came to the tent a very tall man, who had a bright light encircling his body. Where is the girl who promised to marry any one who would release her brother? I am the one, said the young man's sister. I am the all-powerful lightning and thunder. I see all things and can kill at one stroke a whole tribe. When I make my voice heard the rocks shake loose and go rattling down the hillsides. The brave warriors cower shivering under some shelter at the sound of my voice. The girl whom you had adopted as your sister was a sorceress. She bewitched your brother because he would not let her make love to him. On my way here I met her traveling towards the west, and knowing what she had done, I struck her with one of my blazing swords, and she lies there now a heap of ashes. I will now release your brother. So saying he placed his hand on the tree and instantly it crumbled to ashes. The young man arose, and thanked his deliverer. Then they saw a great black cloud approaching, and the...

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