the crocodile (Tale 88)

Role: crocodile · First appears: Tale 88

Life events

• The other woman threw a rind with her teeth marks into the river, and the crocodile recognized her.(Tale 88 · 📍 the river)
  • With: the other woman (Tale 88)
  • “the other woman threw a rind with her teeth marks in the river, and the crocodile saw it and knew who the woman was.”
• The crocodile demanded that the people send out the other woman so he could eat her.(Tale 88)
  • With: the other woman (Tale 88)
  • “He was very angry and went to her house and called the people to send out the woman so he could eat her, for she had eaten his atimon.”
• The crocodile died after the people threw a red-hot iron soil turner into his body.(Tale 88)
  • “Then they put the iron soil turner in the fire until it was red hot. ‘Eat this first,’ they said to the crocodile, and when he opened his mouth, they threw it very far into his body and he died.”

Tale 88

• enemies with the other woman (Tale 88) “Then they put the iron soil turner in the fire until it was red hot. ‘Eat this first,’ they said to the crocodile, and when he opened his mouth, they threw it very far into his body and he died.”

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