the boy (Chapter 043)

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

The boy lived in the wilderness with his grandmother. One day, she told him that a man in the west waited to destroy them and would injure them if he saw them. When a hurricane came, the boy turned their house into a rock, and they emerged unharmed; he did the same again during a hailstorm, protecting himself and his grandmother.

At the lake, the boy threw a charm stone into the water, which began to boil. The next morning, he found the man transformed into a frog and killed it, and no more trouble came to him or his grandmother.

Relationship record

Life events

• The grandmother reveals that a man in the west waits to destroy them.(The Boy And His Grandmother)
  • With: the grandmother (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 grandmother (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 grandmother (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 throws a charm stone into the lake, and the water begins to boil.(The Boy And His Grandmother · 📍 lake)
  • With: the man in the lake (Chapter 043)
  • “As it whirled through the air it became very large and fell into the lake, when, at once, the water began to boil.”
• The boy finds the man transformed into a frog and kills it.(The Boy And His Grandmother · 📍 lake)
  • With: the man in the lake (Chapter 043)
  • “So the boy killed the frog, and no more trouble ever came to him or his grandmother.”

The Boy And His Grandmother

• elder kin: the grandmother (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.