the youngest wonderful man (Tale 14)

Family: Arikara · Role: one of the four wonderful men · First appears: Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 3

Life events

• The youngest of the four men trapped the boy in a tree with a calf. Many days later, one of the men, not identified individually, removed the calf after the boy promised his grandmother to them.(Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 3)
  • With: the boy (Tale 14)
  • “The young man placed the calf on the forks of the tree, so that the boy could not get down. The men then went home with their meat. The boy stayed in the tree many days, and nearly starved, when one of the men came, and said, ‘Old-Woman’s-Grandson, if you will promise your grandmother to us, I will take this calf down.’ The boy said, ‘I promise.’ So the man took the fœtus down.”
• The old woman consented to marry the four men, and the boy took a bow and arrows as payment.(Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 3)
  • With: the boy (Tale 14) the old woman (Tale 14) one of the other three wonderful men (Tale 14) another of the other three wonderful men (Tale 14) the last of the four wonderful men (Tale 14)
  • “The old woman said that it was well, but that she had one thing to ask of them, and that was, that they should give the boy something in return for his grandmother. So the boy went and visited these men in their lodge. He said to the men: ‘What is it that you are to give me in return for my grandmother? My grandmother has consented to marry you men.’ The men said, ‘We are to give you a bow and arrows.’”
• The four men came to the old woman’s home and lay with her as with a wife.(Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 3)
  • With: the old woman (Tale 14) one of the other three wonderful men (Tale 14) another of the other three wonderful men (Tale 14) the last of the four wonderful men (Tale 14)
  • “Itaque hi ad anus domicilium venerunt ibique cum ea sicut cum uxore concubuerunt.”
• The men sealed themselves inside their lodge against the boy’s flute and died of hunger.(Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 3)
  • With: the boy (Tale 14) one of the other three wonderful men (Tale 14) another of the other three wonderful men (Tale 14) the last of the four wonderful men (Tale 14)
  • “They closed up their lodge with earth. The boy kept on whistling, for he was now taking revenge on them for trying to put the fœtus next to him. The men lived on the meat they had in their lodge, but this soon gave out. These wonderful men died of hunger, and were never to be known again upon the earth.”

Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 3

• married with the old woman (Tale 14) “Itaque hi ad anus domicilium venerunt ibique cum ea sicut cum uxore concubuerunt.”

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