elder brother (Chapter 050)

Role: older brother · First appears: The Lad And The Chestnuts

Life events

The younger brother secretly discovers his elder brother eating from a magically enlarged kettle.(The Lad And The Chestnuts)
- With: younger brother (Chapter 050)
- “After a while the elder brother rose and opened a trap-door, and, when below the ground, he began to make strange motions, and presently drew out a kettle and commenced scraping it on the bottom.”
The younger brother enlarges the kettle until it fills the room, leaving his elder brother sorrowful.(The Lad And The Chestnuts)
- With: younger brother (Chapter 050)
- “He at once commenced whipping the kettle as he had seen his brother do, saying, ‘Now my kettle will grow large;’ and it did; but it kept on growing larger and larger, to his surprise, until it filled the whole room, and he had to go up on the roof to stir it from the outside.”
The elder brother refuses food and grows weaker, asking to be allowed to die.(The Lad And The Chestnuts)
- “When morning came he would not get up, nor eat of the venison, but asked for his pipe and smoked.”
The younger brother returns with chestnuts, and his elder brother says he will recover.(The Lad And The Chestnuts)
- With: younger brother (Chapter 050)
- “And he began cooking just as his brother liked them, and he narrated all his exploits, and the brother said, ‘You have done me a great favor, now I shall be well, and we will be happy.’”

siblings with younger brother (Chapter 050) “A man lived with his younger brother alone in the deep wilderness.”

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