a boy (Myth 56)

Role: boy · First appears: Myth 56 · The Snake Boy

Life events

The boy told his grandmother he would leave the family and asked her not to grieve for him.(Myth 56 · The Snake Boy)
- With: his grandmother (Myth 56)
- “at last one day he told his grandmother he would leave them all, but that she must not grieve for him.”
The boy had become an immense uktena, and his grandmother saw him there.(Myth 56 · The Snake Boy · 📍 the hothouse)
- With: his grandmother (Myth 56)
- “At early daybreak she came again to the hothouse and looked in, and there she saw an immense uktena that filled the âsi, with horns on its head, but still with two human legs instead of a snake tail. It was all that was left of her boy.”
The boy, transformed into an uktena, crawled into the river and went under the water.(Myth 56 · The Snake Boy · 📍 the river)
- “It crawled on through the settlement, leaving a broad trail in the ground behind it, until it came to a deep bend in the river, where it plunged in and went under the water.”

elder kin: his grandmother (Myth 56) (The boy transforms into the uktena.) “At early daybreak she came again to the hothouse and looked in, and there she saw an immense uktena that filled the âsi, with horns on its head, but still with two human legs instead of a snake tail. It was all that was left of her boy.”

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