the husband (Tale 45)

Role: husband · First appears: Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk

In Tale 45, the husband’s first wife left him to go with another man, then entered a lake with the Elk. When she finally came out, she felt sorry for him and sent him home. In a few days, his war-party attacked three tipis, killed the people there, and captured their ponies, fulfilling her prediction.

The next time he went on the war-path, his first wife told him, “My husband, I can never leave this lake any more.” In a few days, he captured a woman who looked like her and took her home; she became his new wife, and he was happy with her.

Relationship record

Life events

• The first wife left her husband and went with the fifth man.(Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk)
  • With: the first wife (Tale 45)
  • “This fifth man asked her to go home with him. She liked him so much that she did not feel like refusing him, so she went with him.”
• The first wife entered the lake with the Elk, leaving her husband behind.(Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk)
  • With: the first wife (Tale 45) the Elk
  • “The Elk and the woman went right into this lake.”
• The first wife came out of the lake and sent her husband home.(Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk)
  • With: the first wife (Tale 45)
  • “At last the woman came out from the lake, for she felt sorry for her husband.”
• The husband’s war-party killed the people at three tipis and captured their ponies.(Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk)
  • “They attacked them and killed the people in them. Their ponies they captured, so that it all came true, as the woman had said.”
• The first wife told her husband she could never leave the lake again.(Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk)
  • With: the first wife (Tale 45)
  • “My husband, I can never leave this lake any more.”
• The husband captured the woman who looked like his first wife and took her home.(Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk)
  • With: the new wife (Tale 45)
  • “He captured her and took her home with him.”
• The woman the husband captured became his wife.(Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk)
  • With: the new wife (Tale 45)
  • “She will become your wife and be good to you.”

Tale 45 · The Wife Who Married an Elk

• married with the first wife (Tale 45) “There she stayed, while her husband went out day after day.”
• married with the new wife (Tale 45) “The man never went to the lake any more, but was happy with his new wife, for she looked very much like the woman who had gone into the lake with the Elk.”

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