the girl (Myth 45)

Role: daughter · First appears: Myth 45 · The Huhu Gets Married

In Myth 45, a widow found it hard to make a living with her daughter and urged that they needed a man in the family who could hunt and help in the field. When a stranger lover came courting, the girl said she would marry only a good worker; after speaking with her mother, she married him on her mother’s advice.

Relationship record

Life events

• A widow and her daughter married the stranger lover after the girl accepted his courtship on her mother's advice.(Myth 45 · The Huhu Gets Married · 📍 the house)
  • With: A widow (Myth 45) a stranger lover (Myth 45)
  • “One evening a stranger lover came courting to the house, and when the girl told him that she could marry only one who was a good worker, he declared that he was exactly that sort of man; so the girl talked to her mother, and on her advice they were married.”

Myth 45 · The Huhu Gets Married

• parent: A widow (Myth 45) “A widow who had an only a daughter, but no son, found it very hard to make a living and was constantly urging upon the young woman that they ought to have a man in the family, who would be a good hunter and able to help in the field.”
• married with a stranger lover (Myth 45) “One evening a stranger lover came courting to the house, and when the girl told him that she could marry only one who was a good worker, he declared that he was exactly that sort of man; so the girl talked to her mother, and on her advice they were married.”
• admirer: a stranger lover (Myth 45) “One evening a stranger lover came courting to the house, and when the girl told him that she could marry only one who was a good worker, he declared that he was exactly that sort of man;”

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