the infant's mother (Chapter 051)

Family: tribe · Role: mother · First appears: The Guilty Hunters

Her husband was murdered by hunters who took the skins and meat they had brought home. When night came, he told her, “You and the child must be saved. Go; I shall meet misfortune alone.” She fled through the forest with their infant.

Just at twilight, she returned home with the child and told her friends what had happened to her, the infant, and her husband. When the time for all to assemble came, she testified that one of the hunters had a bitten thumb and explained that her husband had bitten him while defending himself against the robbers.

Relationship record

Life events

• The hunters murdered the infant's father and took the skins and meat.(The Guilty Hunters)
  • With: the infant's father (Chapter 051) the hunters (Chapter 051)
  • “he was bitten by her husband in defending himself against these robbers, who took from her murdered husband the skins and the meats which they had brought home.”
• The mother fled with the infant to escape the danger at their camp.(The Guilty Hunters)
  • With: the infant (Chapter 051)
  • “When night came the husband said to his wife, ‘You and the child must be saved. Go; I shall meet misfortune alone.’ She then started with the child through the forest”
• The mother returned home with the infant and told her friends what had happened.(The Guilty Hunters)
  • With: the infant (Chapter 051)
  • “When once home she related what had happened to herself, child, and husband, to her many friends who secreted her”
• The mother testified that the hunters had robbed and murdered her husband.(The Guilty Hunters)
  • With: the hunters (Chapter 051) the head chief (Chapter 051)
  • “she told that one of them had his thumb bitten, explaining that he was bitten by her husband in defending himself against these robbers, who took from her murdered husband the skins and the meats which they had brought home.”

The Guilty Hunters

• child: the infant (Chapter 051) “She then started with the child through the forest,”
• married with the infant's father (Chapter 051) “When night came the husband said to his wife, ‘You and the child must be saved. Go; I shall meet misfortune alone.’”

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