the girl at the spring (Myth 61)

Role: woman · First appears: Myth 61 · The Bullfrog Lover

Life events

The bullfrog took the form of a young man and asked the girl to marry him; she consented.(Myth 61 · The Bullfrog Lover)
- With: a bullfrog (Myth 61)
- “she saw sitting on a stone by the spring a bullfrog, which suddenly took the form of a young man and asked her to marry him. She consented”
The girl sent the bullfrog away after her family persuaded her to do so.(Myth 61 · The Bullfrog Lover)
- With: a bullfrog (Myth 61)
- “at last persuaded her to send him away. She told him and he went away”
The girl died after the voice foretold her death.(Myth 61 · The Bullfrog Lover)
- “and so it happened soon after.”
As some tell it, the lover was a tadpole who took on human shape; his wife exposed his tadpole mouth, and he left the house forever.(Myth 61 · The Bullfrog Lover)
- With: a bullfrog (Myth 61)
- “At last his wife grew suspicious and turning him suddenly around to the firelight, exposed the tadpole mouth, at which they all ridiculed him so much that he left the house forever.”

admirer: a bullfrog (Myth 61) “There is another story of a girl who, every day when she went down to the spring for water, heard a voice singing, Kûnu'nu tû'tsahyesi', Kûnu'nu tû'tsahyesi', ‘A bullfrog will marry you, A bullfrog will marry you.’ She wondered much until one day when she came down she saw sitting on a stone by the spring a bullfrog, which suddenly took the form of a young man and asked her to marry him.”

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