the man (Myth 14)

Role: man · First appears: Myth 14 · The Deluge

Life events

The dog warned the man of a coming flood and told him how to survive.(Myth 14 · The Deluge)
- With: the dog (Myth 14)
- “Very soon there is going to be a great freshet and the water will come so high that everybody will be drowned; but if you will make a raft to get upon when the rain comes you can be saved, but you must first throw me into the water.”
The man believed the dog's warning and began building a raft.(Myth 14 · The Deluge)
- With: the dog (Myth 14)
- “Then he believed the dog, and began to build a raft.”
The man and his family escaped the flood by boarding a raft.(Myth 14 · The Deluge)
- “Soon the rain came and he took his family, with plenty of provisions, and they all got upon it.”
The flood drowned all the people in the world, leaving the man and his family alive.(Myth 14 · The Deluge)
- “Now there was no one alive but the man and his family”

with the dog (Myth 14) (The man had the dog.) “A long time ago a man had a dog, which began to go down to the river every day and look at the water and howl.”
with the dog (Myth 14) (The man is the dog's owner.) “A long time ago a man had a dog,”

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