the boy who became the Serpent (Tale 21)

Role: the boy who eats serpent meat and transforms into a Serpent · First appears: Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 3

Life events

• The fourth serpent carried both boys across the water; the wild boy jumped before the bank and was swallowed, while the other boy waited until the serpent landed.(Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2)
  • With: the boy who freed the other boy (Tale 21) the fourth serpent (Tale 21)
  • “The wild boy jumped before the serpent came to the bank, and was swallowed by the serpent.”
• The boy who freed the other boy dragged him out of the serpent's mouth.(Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 3)
  • With: the boy who freed the other boy (Tale 21)
  • “He then reached in the serpent’s mouth and dragged out the other boy.”
• After eating serpent meat, the boy began changing into a serpent.(Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 3)
  • “The next morning the boy who ate the serpent woke and saw that his feet had turned red, blue, and white.”
• The boy who became the Serpent transformed fully, and the other boy carried him to the river and released him.(Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 3 · 📍 Wonderful (Missouri) River)
  • With: the boy who freed the other boy (Tale 21)
  • “The fourth morning the boy was a Serpent. The other boy packed the Serpent boy to the river and turned him loose in the river.”
• The Serpent captured Antelope-Carrier and made him vomit up all his powers except the lightning in his eyes.(Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 3)
  • With: Antelope-Carrier
  • “There Antelope-Carrier was put into the sweat-lodge and was made to vomit up all his powers which he possessed except the lightning in his eyes.”
• The Serpent gave its powers, songs, and the Medicine-men’s ceremony to the people.(Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 3)
  • “It gave its powers to the people and gave them songs and the Medicine-men’s ceremony.”

Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 3

• siblings with the boy who freed the other boy (Tale 21) (They are explicitly addressed as brothers.) “The other boy talked to the part-serpent boy, and said, “I will stay with you.” The serpent boy then said: “My brother, carry me to the Wonderful (Missouri) River and put me in the water.”

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