the first young man's friend (Tale 40)

Family: Arikara · Role: young man who visits the hill · First appears: Tale 40 · The Power of the Bloody Scalped-Man

Life events

• The first young man's friend endured the bloody being's threat without running.(Tale 40 · The Power of the Bloody Scalped-Man · 📍 the hill)
  • “The boy did not move, but the man did not strike him with his club.”
• The men under the hill gave the first young man's friend their power and war-club.(Tale 40 · The Power of the Bloody Scalped-Man · 📍 the cave)
  • “The leader of the men in the lodge said: “You are the first young man who has not run from our errand man, and now we will give you the power that we possess.”
• The first young man's friend returned home with the power-given items, including a war-club.(Tale 40 · The Power of the Bloody Scalped-Man)
  • “The next morning, the people found a war-club hanging over the young man’s head, and the young man was lying upon his bed.”
• The first young man's friend used his disguise and war-club to kill two enemies and scatter the attackers.(Tale 40 · The Power of the Bloody Scalped-Man · 📍 the battlefield)
  • “He ran towards the enemy and killed one. He went around his own people, and went on the west side again and attacked the enemy, killing another one with his war-club. He scattered the enemy, because he looked so fierce on account of the blood which was dripping from his head.”
• The first young man's friend disappeared after returning to the place where he had received his power.(Tale 40 · The Power of the Bloody Scalped-Man · 📍 the place where he had received his power)
  • “In the night he disappeared, for he went to the place where he had received his power.”
• The people discovered his identity and learned he had great powers; he became a great medicine-man.(Tale 40 · The Power of the Bloody Scalped-Man)
  • “The people did not know who he was, but after several battles they found out. They also learned that he had great powers. He became a great man through attacking the enemy, for he had power to go out on the war-path and bring home many scalps. They were not really scalps, but were pieces of scalps which he had made himself. He would not be a chief, but became a great medicine-man.”

Tale 40 · The Power of the Bloody Scalped-Man

• friends with the first young man (Tale 40) “He told one of his friends what had happened to him and his friend laughed at him for running away from the place where he had gone to get some power.”

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