the man's wife (Tale 74)

Role: mother · First appears: Tale 74

In Tale 74, the man's wife is married to the man and is the mother of the man's daughter. When their daughter said she would become a coconut tree beside the house, she went home and told her mother, “It is better now that I become a coconut tree, to stand close by our house.” In the morning, the man's wife and her husband missed the girl and saw the coconut tree beside their house; they knew she had changed into it.

Relationship record

Life events

• The man's daughter had changed into a coconut tree beside the house.(Tale 74)
  • With: the man's daughter (Tale 74) the man (Tale 74)
  • “In the morning the man and his wife missed the girl, and when they looked out doors, there stood a fine coconut tree close to the house; so they knew that she had changed to the tree.”

Tale 74

• child: the man's daughter (Tale 74) “so she went home and said to her mother, ‘It is better now that I become a coconut tree, to stand close by our house.’”
• married with the man (Tale 74) “In the morning the man and his wife missed the girl, and when they looked out doors, there stood a fine coconut tree close to the house; so they knew that she had changed to the tree.”

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