the beautiful snake (Chapter 18)

Role: snake · First appears: The Origin Of Witches And Witch Charms

Life events

The boy caught the beautiful snake and cared for it.(The Origin Of Witches And Witch Charms)
- With: the boy (Chapter 18)
- “Taking a great fancy to it, he caught it and cared for it, feeding it on birds, &c., and made a bark bowl in which he kept it.”
Fibers, down, and small feathers in the snake’s water became living beings.(The Origin Of Witches And Witch Charms)
- With: the boy (Chapter 18)
- “He put fibers, down, and small feathers into the water with the snake, and soon found that these things had become living beings.”
The boy rubbed the snake-water on his eyes and gained the ability to see hidden things.(The Origin Of Witches And Witch Charms)
- With: the boy (Chapter 18)
- “so he rubbed some of this snake-water on his eyes, and climbing a tree he found that he could see things even if they were hidden.”
The boy obtained antidotes that counteracted objects he had bewitched or wounded.(The Origin Of Witches And Witch Charms)
- With: the boy (Chapter 18)
- “and finally he was rewarded by obtaining antidotes which would work upon objects which he had bewitched or wounded.”

foster-parent: the boy (Chapter 18) “Taking a great fancy to it, he caught it and cared for it, feeding it on birds, &c., and made a bark bowl in which he kept it.”

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