the girl's mother (Myth 114)

Role: mother · First appears: Myth 114 · Two Lazy Hunters

Life events

The girl's mother questioned the young man's mother about the deer he had supposedly been carrying.(Myth 114 · Two Lazy Hunters)
- With: the young man's mother (Myth 114)
- “So her mother--the old women are usually the matchmakers--got ready and went to the young man's mother to talk it over. When she arrived and the greetings were done she said, ‘Your son must be a good hunter.’ ‘No,’ replied the old woman, ‘he seldom kills anything.’ ‘But he has been killing a great many deer lately.’ ‘I haven't seen any,’ said his mother. ‘Why, he has been carrying deer past our house twice a day for the last three days.’ ‘I don't know what he did with them,’ said the young man's mother; ‘he never brought them here.’”
The girl's mother told her husband what she had learned, and he followed the young man's trail to the hidden deer.(Myth 114 · Two Lazy Hunters)
- With: her husband (Myth 114)
- “Then the girl's mother was sure there was something wrong, so she went home and told her husband, who followed up the young man's trail into the woods until it brought him to where the body of the deer was hidden, now so far decayed that it had to be thrown away.”

child: the pretty girl (Myth 114) “passing right by the door of the house where the girl and her mother lived.”
married with her husband (Myth 114) “Then the girl's mother was sure there was something wrong, so she went home and told her husband, who followed up the young man's trail into the woods until it brought him to where the body of the deer was hidden, now so far decayed that it had to be thrown away.”

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