the boy (Chapter 052)

Role: nephew · First appears: Mrs. Logan'S Story

In Mrs. Logan’s story, the boy lived with his uncle, an old man, and was told to find the sister who had been carried off years earlier. The first man deserted him naked on an island; after escaping the man’s search, the boy sailed away by canoe. Three days later he found his sister at the rocks, where she said a bad man was keeping her. They escaped by canoe, and the boy killed the man pursuing them.

The boy brought his sister to the skeleton, then followed its instructions to gather bones and raise the dead. After ten years away, the siblings returned to their uncle, who had mourned for his nephew throughout their absence. The boy and his uncle built a long house with six fireplaces, and the boy brought his people from the island to live there.

Relationship record

Life events

• The first man deserted the boy naked on the island.(Mrs. Logan'S Story · 📍 the island)
  • With: the first man (Chapter 052)
  • “When the boy perceived that he was deserted he went up the bank and sat down and cried, for he was naked and cold.”
• The boy escaped the first man's attempt to find him and kill him.(Mrs. Logan'S Story · 📍 the island)
  • With: the first man (Chapter 052)
  • “Then they ran all over the island, but not finding him, the man became so angry that he killed one of the dogs and ate him all up.”
• The boy escaped the first man by sailing away in the swan-propelled canoe.(Mrs. Logan'S Story · 📍 the island)
  • With: the first man (Chapter 052)
  • “They had gone but a little way when the man saw them. He began to cry, ‘Come back! Oh do come back!’ but the boy did not look around and they kept on their way.”
• The boy found his sister, who had been held by a bad man.(Mrs. Logan'S Story · 📍 the rocks)
  • With: the boy's sister (Chapter 052)
  • “The boy started and in three days arrived at the rocks, where he found his sister, to whom he called, ‘Sister, come, go home with me’; but she replied, ‘No, dear brother, I cannot go; a bad man keeps me here, and you must go, for he will kill you if he finds you here.’”
• The boy and his sister escaped by canoe, and the boy killed the man pursuing them.(Mrs. Logan'S Story · 📍 the lake)
  • With: the boy's sister (Chapter 052) the first man (Chapter 052)
  • “The boy took another stone and threw it and hit the man so it killed him, and the water ran back into the lake.”
• The boy turned the man's two dogs into wolves.(Mrs. Logan'S Story · 📍 the woods)
  • “The boy said to the two dogs, ‘You bad dogs, no one will have you now; You must go into the woods and be wolves’; and they started for the woods and became wolves.”
• The boy brought his recovered sister to the skeleton.(Mrs. Logan'S Story · 📍 the island)
  • With: the boy's sister (Chapter 052)
  • “The boy went to the skeleton, which said, ‘You are a very smart boy to have recovered your sister--bring her to me.’ This the boy did”
• The boy caused the dead to arise by gathering their bones and following the skeleton's instructions.(Mrs. Logan'S Story · 📍 the island)
  • “The boy did so, and all the dead arose, some having but one arm, some with but one leg, but all had their bows and arrows.”
• The boy and his sister returned home to their uncle after his long mourning for the boy.(Mrs. Logan'S Story)
  • With: the boy's sister (Chapter 052) the old man (Chapter 052)
  • “When they arrived home they found their own uncle; he looked very old. For ten years he had cried and put ashes upon his head for his little nephew, but now he was very happy to think he had returned.”
• The boy and his uncle built a long house with six fireplaces.(Mrs. Logan'S Story)
  • With: the old man (Chapter 052)
  • “And they did so, and put in six fire-places.”
• The boy brought his people from the island to live in the long house.(Mrs. Logan'S Story · 📍 the island)
  • “Then the boy went back to the island for his people and brought them to the house, where they lived peacefully many years.”

Mrs. Logan'S Story

• siblings with the boy's sister (Chapter 052) “You are a very smart boy; now you must go and get your sister whom this man carried off many years ago.”
• with the old man (Chapter 052) (Uncle and nephew.) “An old man and his little nephew once lived in a dark woods.”
• elder kin: the old man (Chapter 052) “An old man and his little nephew once lived in a dark woods.”
• enemies with the first man (Chapter 052) “The boy promised to obey and soon the man who had brought him came ashore on the island.”

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