the Crane

Role: bird · First appears: Myth 43 · The Race Between the Crane and the Hummingbird

Life events

A pretty woman made the Crane challenge the Hummingbird to a race, promising to marry the winner.(Myth 43 · The Race Between the Crane and the Hummingbird)
- With: the Hummingbird a pretty woman (Myth 43)
- “she finally told him he must challenge the other to a race and she would marry the winner.”
The Hummingbird and the Crane agreed to race for the woman's hand in marriage.(Myth 43 · The Race Between the Crane and the Hummingbird)
- With: the Hummingbird a pretty woman (Myth 43)
- “They agreed to start from her house and fly around the circle of the world to the beginning, and the one who came in first would marry the woman.”
The Crane won the race, but the woman refused to marry him and stayed single.(Myth 43 · The Race Between the Crane and the Hummingbird)
- With: the Hummingbird a pretty woman (Myth 43)
- “He took his time at breakfast and then fixed himself up as nicely as he could at the creek and came in at the starting place where the woman lived, early in the morning. When the Hummingbird arrived in the afternoon he found he had lost the race, but the woman declared she would never have such an ugly fellow as the Crane for a husband, so she stayed single.”

rivals with the Hummingbird “At the word the Hummingbird darted off like an arrow and was out of sight in a moment, leaving his rival to follow heavily behind.”
admired: a pretty woman (Myth 43) “The Hummingbird and the Crane were both in love with a pretty woman.”

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