another lazy fellow (Myth 114)

Role: hunter · First appears: Myth 114 · Two Lazy Hunters

Life events

The pretty girl refused his courtship unless he became a good hunter.(Myth 114 · Two Lazy Hunters)
- With: the pretty girl (Myth 114)
- “There was another lazy fellow who courted a pretty girl, but she would have nothing to do with him, telling him that her husband must be a good hunter or she would remain single all her life.”
He killed a deer, hid it in the woods, and carried it past the girl's house repeatedly to appear successful.(Myth 114 · Two Lazy Hunters · 📍 the woods)
- “One morning he went into the woods, and by a lucky accident managed to kill a deer. Lifting it upon his back, he carried it into the settlement, passing right by the door of the house where the girl and her mother lived. As soon as he was out of sight of the house he went by a roundabout course into the woods again and waited until evening, when he appeared with the deer on his shoulder and came down the trail past the girl's house as he had in the morning. He did this the next day, and the next”

admired: the pretty girl (Myth 114) “There was another lazy fellow who courted a pretty girl, but she would have nothing to do with him, telling him that her husband must be a good hunter or she would remain single all her life.”
parent: the young man's mother (Myth 114) “So her mother--the old women are usually the matchmakers--got ready and went to the young man's mother to talk it over.”

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