the fourth serpent (Tale 21)
Role: serpent that carries the boys across the water · First appears: Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2
In Tale 21, the fourth serpent carried both boys across the water after the old woman prepared cakes and instructed them how to cross. On the fourth day, the wild boy jumped before the serpent reached the bank and was swallowed, while the other boy waited until it landed. The boys had called the serpent their grandfather.
Relationship record
Life events
- The old woman prepared cakes and instructed the boys how to cross the water on the fourth serpent.(Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2)
- With: the old woman who hosted the boys (Tale 21) the boy who shot the object (Tale 21) the other boy (Tale 21)
- “She made the cakes and gave them to the boys, and said: “Go to the bank, and both of you must say,”
- 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 became the Serpent (Tale 21) the boy who freed the other boy (Tale 21)
- “The wild boy jumped before the serpent came to the bank, and was swallowed by the serpent.”
Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2
- younger kin: the boy who shot the object (Tale 21) “The fourth serpent came, and the boys got upon it with their cakes of mush. The boys took one cake and told their grandfather to open his mouth.”
- younger kin: the other boy (Tale 21) “The fourth serpent came, and the boys got upon it with their cakes of mush. The boys took one cake and told their grandfather to open his mouth.”
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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Arikara. Made with Rho MD.