the girl who married a star (Tale 15)

Role: wife and mother · First appears: Tale 15 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 1

That night, the girl’s husband, the star (Tale 15) took the girl who married a star (Tale 15) to the heavens to live as his wife and instructed her what to do and not do. After digging a turnip, she saw that people on earth looked like crawling insects. She later went with her first child on her back; when a stone struck her head and cut the rope, she fell to her death, while the boy, son of the girl who married a star (Tale 15) survived and remained beside her body.

Relationship record

The girl was taken to the heavens to live with the star as his wife.(Tale 15 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 1 · 📍 heavens)
- With: the girl’s husband, the star (Tale 15)
- “That same night, while sleeping, the girl was taken away up in the heavens, to live with her husband”
The girl discovered that people living on earth looked like crawling insects.(Tale 15 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 1)
- “When she had dug the turnip she saw what the mystery was. She saw the people living on this earth looking like crawling insects.”
The girl fell to her death, while her son survived and remained beside her body.(Tale 15 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 1)
- With: the boy, son of the girl who married a star (Tale 15)
- “Down—down—went the stone, and struck the young mother on the head; it cut the rope and her body fell; but the boy was safe.”

married with the girl’s husband, the star (Tale 15) “That same night, while sleeping, the girl was taken away up in the heavens, to live with her husband, he giving her instructions what to do and what not to do.”
child: the boy, son of the girl who married a star (Tale 15) “She went with her first child on her back.”

Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Arikara. Made with Rho MD.