Week 11 Reading Notes: Eskimo Folk Tales - Reading A
Eskimo Folk-Tales (stories recorded by Knud Rasmussen)
The Coming of Men, A Long, Long While Ago
- I might use this for further inspo for my flood storybook
- Earth was formed with hills and stones falling from the sky
- Men came about, as young children, crawling out of bushes, not knowing how to walk
- A man and a woman were there, the woman clothed the kids
- Men wanted to have dogs, so they whipped a dog leash and called out and dogs rushed forward
- But overpopulation became a problem, because these people did not know how to die, even in their old age
- To handle this, a flood was sent, and there are now less men, and we can see traces of this flood
- The first man to die tried to come back, because they did not know how to die
- With death, came sun, moon, and the stars
- Because when men die, they become the shining things in the sky
- There was a young boy whose parents and sister died
- This boy was paralyzed from the waist down and when he was home alone because everyone else was hunting he heard a noise
- He dragged himself out of the house to the house next door, and a ghost walked in
- The ghost took a drink from the water tub in the house
- The people returned and found the boy hiding and saw that the ghost had drunk
- The people once again went hunting
- The house began to shake and a bunch of ghosts came into the house, one of which was his sister
- These ghosts just played around, and so the boy became comfy
- A ghost told the boy if he didn't tell anyone, they could help him gain strength in his lower body again
- But the boy told and so the strength once again left him
- After telling the people, the boy was tied to a frame post and swung back and forth
- His parents, as ghosts, found him like this and brought him with them, and so he became a ghost
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