the younger brother (Myth 92)

Family: the Seneca · Role: younger brother · First appears: Myth 92 · Escape of the Seneca Boys

In Myth 92, the old man adopted the younger brother and his older brother as his own. When the older brother proposed killing him and escaping, the younger brother worried they might get lost so far from home; his brother replied, “I remember the way.”

A few days later, the brothers killed the old man, took food, and made their way north along the mountain ridges. At the village, their mother recognized her sons, and they returned together.

Relationship record

Life events

• The older brother proposed killing the old man and running away; the younger brother feared they would get lost so far from home, and the older brother answered that he remembered the way.(Myth 92 · Escape of the Seneca Boys)
  • With: the older brother (Myth 92)
  • “one day the older one said to his brother, ‘Let's kill the old man and run away.’”
• The brothers killed the old man and escaped toward the north.(Myth 92 · Escape of the Seneca Boys · 📍 the mountains)
  • With: the older brother (Myth 92) the old man (Myth 92)
  • “When they were well away from the settlement the boys killed the old man, took all the meat and parched corn meal they could easily carry, and started to make their way back to the north, keeping away from the main trail and following the ridge of the mountains.”
• Their mother recognized her two sons, and they returned to the village together.(Myth 92 · Escape of the Seneca Boys · 📍 the village)
  • With: the older brother (Myth 92) their mother (Myth 92)
  • “Then the mother recognized her two sons, and said, ‘Let us go back and dance for the dead come to life,’ and they were all very glad and went into the village together.”

Myth 92 · Escape of the Seneca Boys

• siblings with the older brother (Myth 92) (They are brothers.) “‘Let's kill the old man and run away.’ ‘No,’ said the other, ‘we might get lost if we ran away, we are so far from home.’ ‘I remember the way,’ said his brother, so they made a plan to escape.”
• foster-parent: the old man (Myth 92) “He took the boys and adopted them for his own”
• enemies with the old man (Myth 92) “When they were well away from the settlement the boys killed the old man”
• parent: their mother (Myth 92) “Then the mother recognized her two sons”

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