the grandmother (Chapter 043)

Role: grandmother · First appears: The Boy And His Grandmother

An old woman lived with her grandson, the boy, in the wilderness. One day, she warned him that the man in the lake waited in the west to destroy them: “if he sees you he will injure you and me.”

When a hurricane came, the boy turned their house into a rock, and they were unharmed. He turned it into a rock again during a hailstorm, and when the storm ended, he and his grandmother came out.

Relationship record

Life events

• The grandmother reveals that a man in the west waits to destroy them.(The Boy And His Grandmother)
  • With: the boy (Chapter 043)
  • “Far away in the west,” said she, “there lives one who waits to destroy us, and if he sees you he will injure you and me.”
• The boy turns their house into a rock, protecting them from the hurricane.(The Boy And His Grandmother)
  • With: the boy (Chapter 043)
  • “We will throw the house into a rock.” And he turned it into a rock, and when the hurricane was over they were unharmed”
• The boy turns their house into a rock again, protecting them from the hailstorm.(The Boy And His Grandmother)
  • With: the boy (Chapter 043)
  • “We will turn the house into a rock again.” And he did, and when the storm was ended he and his grandmother came out”

The Boy And His Grandmother

• younger kin: the boy (Chapter 043) “An old woman lived with her grandson in the wilderness.”
• enemies with the man in the lake (Chapter 043) “Far away in the west,” said she, “there lives one who waits to destroy us, and if he sees you he will injure you and me.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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