This was a weird story to say the least. It involved buffalos
turning into humans, and was revolved around one family. The family was torn
apart several times, and in the end were reunited. They were reunited even
after the father was killed, brought back to life, and transformed from a
buffalo back into a human. This was a very odd story.
This was a rather graphic story. First of all, it starts
with polygamy, and nothing good can ever come of that! One wife kills the
other, than the children kill the other children. It is a horrible and sad
story. No one really has a happy ending or ends up victorious.
The page for this says it no longer exists. I am guessing I
won’t need to read it.
It’s starts back up on the second part of this story, so now
I am slightly confused because I didn’t have access to part 1. From what I can
tell, there are buffalo seeking a girl. There is a battle scene in which the
buffalo are trying to strike a tree down. The buffalo lost and was killed, and
told by the tree that humans would start hunting buffalo. Then the next part of
the story was a really awkward story where a rock was trying to marry a girl.
The rock was mean so they were trying to run away from him, but he was very
powerful and somehow the girl and all of her family rose up into the sky and
escaped. This made me think that she killed everyone so their spirits could be
safe. I didn’t fully understand it, but once again thought it was very odd.
Two girls were on the beach playing with whale and eagle
bones, when a whale swiped up on girl, and an eagle took the other. The girls
became their imprisoned wives. However, they were able to escape, go back to
their families, and kill their husbands when they came back to try to get them.
This is yet another weird story from this unit.
Interesting story. I couldn’t decide if it was a woman
dressed as a fox, or a fox disguised as a woman in the end though. But the hunter
would go out and come back and his place would be as if a wife had fixed everything
up while he was away. So one time when he left, he waited to see who would
enter his house, and it ended up being a fox. But when he went to go see the
fox, he found that it was a woman. It was kind of confusing but an overall cute
story. I thought it was odd the fox-woman just left at the end and they didn’t
have a happily ever after though.
This was yet another odd story. I am starting to feel like
these stories don’t have much of a plot to them, or even a moral. In this one,
a husband catches a fish, and a fish pulls the woman into the sea in return.
The woman is held captive by some killer whales, then a shark comes and a big
brawl happens. In the end, the woman and man are reunited though. You could
maybe rewrite this to the plot of the movie Taken.
This was a very gruesome story. A wife went to the lake and
saw a snake everyday. I think this was code for getting it on with another man.
The husband found out, killed the snake and her. Then let his children eat the
mother. Then the mother’s head was rolling around trying to speak to the
children. The children kill the father, and somehow end up being able to feast
all of the time. It was a horrible story that I would not recommend to anyone.
This is kind of a star-crossed lover ordeal. A woman falls
in love with a bear, and so her father kills the bear. The girl is so upset
that she ends up turning herself into a bear and killing a ton of people in
their village. She kind of becomes a monster. Her family is even afraid of her
and sets up a trap to catch her. They ended up killing her but not before she
killed four of her brothers. Then the siblings that were alive brought back the
others to life. They didn’t have anyone else living in the area though since
the bear woman had killed everyone so they descended into the sky and became
different stars. This was a weird and very unrealistic ending, with once again
no moral.
So a young girl has a dog and she loves it dearly. Every
night the dog turns into a man though and sleeps with her. She then gets
pregnant and the father kills the dog/man. She then has like four children who
are dogs. One day she discovers they are changed into humans though and could
do that all the time so she has them stay as humans. Then the kids get really
good at hunting and fishing and are made chiefs of the land they were once
pushed out of. This was one of the more and easy to understand stories in the
unit thus far.
This was a more risqué story because it talked about
intercourse. I was shocked by the discussion of it. But a man already had two
wives, and for some reason was so attracted to another woman that he went with
her. The scene where she took him reminded me of a cult. In the cult they would
hunt and kill each other. They would eat each other, save the bones, and then
throw the bones in the lake. When they threw them in the lake though, the
person would revive and come back to life. It was really odd, but he chose to
stay in this community. Another weird thing that happens when the story
continues is that the woman are kind of passed around to different men. The man
didn’t like that and started to transform himself into a buck and fight off
other men that tried to get near his wife. Then one day the wife, the hunter,
and their new son decided to go back to where the man was from and see everyone
there. They traveled back, and his former wives had remarried since they never
thought they would see him again. But it was there that they taught people how
to properly kill deer. They needed to keep good care of their bones and put
them in the lake to revive them, and if they did that all would be happy. This
was an odd but not a terrible story.
A girl talks to turkeys and one day they talk back to her.
They ask if they can help her get dressed up and go celebrate the holiday that
is occurring in her town. This reminds me a little bit of Cinderella. So the
turkeys dressed her up in the finest clothing and jewels. When she went to the
ball then, everyone was astonished at how beautiful she was. The chiefs of the
dance then came over to her and asked her to dance. She danced the night away
and forgot about her turkeys. Then it was too late, and by the time she went to
go back to the turkeys they had assumed she forgot about them and they had
left. They were trailing up the mountain and signing about how she had
forgotten them. She tried but could not catch up to them, and her dress had dissolved
by this time. All she was then was a poor girl who didn’t even have her turkeys
anymore.
A girl and her stepmother had issues. The stepmother sent
her out to get berries mid winter, which is of course impossible. So the girl
went and found a cabin, in the cabin she found some of her relatives that she
had never known. They gave her berries, fine clothing, and the ability to make
gold by spitting. When the girl returned, the stepmother was surprised and sent
her own daughter out to follow the girl and do what she did. But the stepsister
was rude to the men, so they didn’t give her new clothes or special powers,
just berries. The chief’s son then wanted to marry the girl who could spit gold
and so he did. When she got pregnant, the stepmother was a midwife and instead
of giving her the baby, gave her a cat saying she had given birth to a cat
because she was weird. Then when she had a second child, handed her a snake
saying she once again was odd. The stepmother then told the chief that since
she was having odd children, that she should kill his wife and marry her actual
daughter. So the chief had his wife bound with iron and thrown into a lake.
However, the guys from the cabin, her brothers, were in the lake. They untied
and saved her, telling her about how she had actual children and the stepmother
was just crazy. The chief married the stepsister but didn’t like her because
she was gross. The stepmother found out the children of the girl were alive and
so she poisoned and killed them. However, they were brought back to life with
some spittle. Although the way of getting the spittle was very confusing. The
chief was told the truth about his children, and the stepmother and her
daughter were imprisoned and hanged. The stepdaughter who had been a swan since
she had been thrown into the lake, returned to her natural form, was reunited
with her husband and children, and lived happily ever after. Good but very long
story. Also there was something about the sun and moon and the children that
really confused me. I may have to read this over again if I choose to rewrite
it.
Hi Katelynn, I just tried both links to the Splinter Foot Girl story and they seem to be working fine, but if you remember what link you tried that did not work, I would be so grateful! Here is the story:
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If you ever have a problem with broken links, just let me know!