the father (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)

Family: Skidi · Role: the boy's father · First appears: The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 1

In the Skidi village on the Loup, the father lived with his wife and son, believing that sacrificing the boy to Ti-ra´-wa would bring him a blessing. One morning, at the Platte, he stabbed and killed his son, then threw his body into the river and returned to the village.

During the night, the boy returned home to his parents, surprising them. The boy later understood that “his father had sacrificed him.”

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Life events

• The father stabbed the boy, killed him, and threw his body into the river.(The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 1 · 📍 the Platte)
  • With: the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
  • “When they got to the river, as they were walking along, the man took his knife from its sheath, and caught the boy by the shoulder, and stabbed him quickly, and cut him open. When the boy was dead, he threw the body into the river, and then went back to the village.”
• The boy returned home to his parents, who were surprised to see him.(The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 2 · 📍 the village)
  • With: the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) the mother (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
  • “He went up to her, and put out his hand and touched her, and pushed her a little. She awoke, and sat up and looked at him, and he said, ‘I've come back.’”
• The father had sacrificed the boy.(The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 2)
  • With: the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
  • “He knew that he could never have learned all these wonderful things unless his father had sacrificed him.”

The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 1

• child: the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) “Many years ago, in the Skidi village on the Loup, there lived a man, who believed that if he sacrificed his son to Ti-ra´-wa, it would be a blessing to him.”
• married with the mother (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) “After a time he said to his wife, ‘Where is the boy?’”

The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 2

• child: the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) “The boy went home to the village. He got there in the night, and went to his father's lodge, and went in.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales. Made with Rho MD.