the Cricket

First appears: Myth 18 · Why the Possum's Tail Is Bare

Life events

• The Rabbit instructed the Cricket to clip the Possum’s tail while dressing it.(Myth 18 · Why the Possum's Tail Is Bare)
  • With: the Rabbit
  • “Then the Rabbit went over to the Cricket, who is such an expert hair cutter that the Indians call him the barber, and told him to go next morning and dress the Possum's tail for the dance that night. He told the Cricket just what to do”
• The Cricket secretly clipped all the hair from the Possum’s tail.(Myth 18 · Why the Possum's Tail Is Bare)
  • With: the Possum
  • “But all this time, as he wound the string around, he was clipping off the hair close to the roots, and the Possum never knew it.”

Myth 18 · Why the Possum's Tail Is Bare

• enemies with the Possum “But all this time, as he wound the string around, he was clipping off the hair close to the roots, and the Possum never knew it.”

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