the baby boy (Myth 97)

Family: the Seneca · Role: son of the older sister · First appears: Myth 97 · Origin of the Yontoñwisas Dance

Life events

A Cherokee war party captured the two sisters and the baby boy.(Myth 97 · Origin of the Yontoñwisas Dance · 📍 a sugar grove)
- With: the older sister (Myth 97) the younger sister (Myth 97)
- “Two Seneca women who were sisters, with the baby boy of the older one, were in a sugar grove near their home when a war party of Cherokee came upon them and carried them off.”
The older sister cut the sisters free, and they escaped with the baby boy.(Myth 97 · Origin of the Yontoñwisas Dance)
- With: the older sister (Myth 97) the younger sister (Myth 97)
- “Taking out her knife, she cut the rope without waking the men, and then rousing her sister quietly she whispered to her to come. They were going to leave the little boy, but he started to cry, so she said, ‘Let us die together,’ and took him up on her back, and the two women hurried away.”

parent: the older sister (Myth 97) “Two Seneca women who were sisters, with the baby boy of the older one, were in a sugar grove near their home when a war party of Cherokee came upon them and carried them off.”

Extracted from the original text of Myths of the Cherokee. Made with Rho MD.