A widow (Myth 45)

Role: widow · First appears: Myth 45 · The Huhu Gets Married

Life events

A widow and her daughter married the stranger lover after the girl accepted his courtship on her mother's advice.(Myth 45 · The Huhu Gets Married · 📍 the house)
- With: the girl (Myth 45) a stranger lover (Myth 45)
- “One evening a stranger lover came courting to the house, and when the girl told him that she could marry only one who was a good worker, he declared that he was exactly that sort of man; so the girl talked to her mother, and on her advice they were married.”
A widow sent her new son-in-law to work in the cornfield with a hoe.(Myth 45 · The Huhu Gets Married · 📍 the house)
- With: a stranger lover (Myth 45)
- “The next morning the widow gave her new son-in-law a hoe and sent him out to the cornfield.”
A widow believed her son-in-law's account that he had worked hard and was satisfied with him.(Myth 45 · The Huhu Gets Married · 📍 the house)
- With: a stranger lover (Myth 45)
- “So the old woman was satisfied, and they had their supper together.”
A widow ordered the lazy huhu to leave and drove him from the house.(Myth 45 · The Huhu Gets Married · 📍 the house)
- With: a stranger lover (Myth 45)
- “My daughter wants a husband that can work and not a lazy huhu; so you may go.”

child: the girl (Myth 45) “A widow who had an only a daughter, but no son, found it very hard to make a living and was constantly urging upon the young woman that they ought to have a man in the family, who would be a good hunter and able to help in the field.”

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