the last Snake (Tale 15)

Family: Snakes · Role: Snake · First appears: Tale 15 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 2

Life events

The boy killed the Snakes, but the last Snake escaped and vowed to remember him.(Tale 15 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 2)
- With: the boy, son of the girl who married a star (Tale 15)
- “He took from his belt his sharp knife and cut along a straight line on the square structure, cutting off the head of every Snake until he came to the last one, which slid away, saying as he went, ‘Old-Woman’s-Boy, I will remember all.’”
The last Snake entered the boy’s body; his father sent wind and rain that helped him drive it out and capture it.(Tale 15 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 2)
- With: the boy, son of the girl who married a star (Tale 15) the girl’s husband, the star (Tale 15)
- “There came a scorching heat, and the water began to make the Snake peep out its head, but the boy would say, ‘Old-Woman’s-Grandson is still alive.’ It got too hot for the Snake. It fled, and the boy sprang to his feet and caught it.”
The boy flattened the Snake’s head and condemned it to crawl in the dirt.(Tale 15 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 2)
- With: the boy, son of the girl who married a star (Tale 15)
- “He took the Snake and knocked his head on a flat rock until it was flat and its eyes were close to its mouth.”

enemies with the boy, son of the girl who married a star (Tale 15) “The boy thought of how he was to have been treated, and he decided to be avenged. He took from his belt his sharp knife and cut along a straight line on the square structure, cutting off the head of every Snake until he came to the last one, which slid away, saying as he went, ‘Old-Woman’s-Boy, I will remember all.’”

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