Week 11 Reading Notes: Eskimo Folk Tales - Reading B

  Eskimo Folk-Tales (stories recorded by Knud Rasmussen)

The Wife Who Lied

  • A woman from a tribe that ate people became the wife of a man from a tribe that did not
  • When she went to visit her own tribe, she put mittens on her feet so they'd think her husband's tribe was not treating her properly
    • And so they prepared for war
  • They attacked when all the men were out and killed all the women, but 3, and the ones they killed they stabbed through long poles
    • The men instantly thought of the wife
  • the men then prepared a counterattack and hid among the rocks before attacking
  • One of the old women of the cannibal tribe had a dream about 2 creatures fighting, and the tribe believed this meant the other tribe was near
    • The tribe set up a spirit calling, and when it begun they heard a dog on the house of a roof, alerting that the other tribe had come
  • The cannibal tribesmen were killed and the women taken for wives, except for the original wife who was taken off by two men
    • They cut through her arms and she bled to death
  • All this because she lied about her husband mistreating her


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