the girl who became a Whirlwind (Tale 48)

Family: Arikara · Role: the boy’s sister · First appears: Tale 48 · The Girl Who Became a Whirlwind

Life events

A Whirlwind took the girl far away from her brother.(Tale 48 · The Girl Who Became a Whirlwind)
- With: the boy (Tale 48)
- “While the girl was gone, a Whirlwind came and took her far away.”
The Owls sheltered the boy from his sister, and she released him after he promised her his first wife.(Tale 48 · The Girl Who Became a Whirlwind · 📍 the den of the Owls)
- With: the Owls (Tale 48) the boy (Tale 48)
- “So the boy was turned loose, and traveled towards his people.”
The boy married the chief’s daughter and fulfilled his promise to give her to his sister.(Tale 48 · The Girl Who Became a Whirlwind · 📍 the tipi)
- With: the boy (Tale 48) the chief’s daughter (Tale 48)
- “The boy went out. The next day the brother came into the lodge, and his sister said: “My brother, I give you this club and this medicine, and I give you the power that I possess—that of the Whirlwind.”
The girl gave her brother her Whirlwind power and said she would remain toward the southwest.(Tale 48 · The Girl Who Became a Whirlwind)
- With: the boy (Tale 48)
- “My brother, I give you this club and this medicine, and I give you the power that I possess—that of the Whirlwind. You will have power to kill the enemy.”

siblings with the boy (Tale 48) “Now, the boy told his sister that he wanted a bow and arrows; that he was all the time going around through the timber seeing rabbits and smaller game.”

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