the old woman who hosted the boys (Tale 21)

Role: host and grandmother of the two boys · First appears: Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2

In Tale 21, the old woman welcomed the boy who shot the object (Tale 21) and the other boy (Tale 21) into her lodge, called them “grandsons,” and fed them during the moon they stayed with her. She made cakes and instructed the boys to cross the water on the fourth serpent. In Part 3, the boy who freed the other boy (Tale 21) said that his grandmother had told him to feed someone with his own lice.

Relationship record

Life events

• The old woman welcomed and fed the boys, who stayed with her for one moon.(Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2 · 📍 her lodge)
  • With: the boy who shot the object (Tale 21) the other boy (Tale 21)
  • “They went in and she fed them. They stayed with the old woman one moon.”
• 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 boy who shot the object (Tale 21) the other boy (Tale 21) the fourth serpent (Tale 21)
  • “She made the cakes and gave them to the boys, and said: “Go to the bank, and both of you must say,”

Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2

• younger kin: the boy who shot the object (Tale 21) “As they neared the big water they saw a patch of corn and squash. They went on and saw an earth-lodge. They stood outside, and after a while an old woman came out and called them ‘grandsons’ and asked them to enter her lodge.”
• younger kin: the other boy (Tale 21) “As they neared the big water they saw a patch of corn and squash. They went on and saw an earth-lodge. They stood outside, and after a while an old woman came out and called them ‘grandsons’ and asked them to enter her lodge.”

Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 3

• younger kin: the boy who freed the other boy (Tale 21) (The boy refers to his grandmother; this passage does not identify her by name.) “Grandfather, I am about to leave you. Grandmother said that I was to feed you with your own lice”

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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Arikara. Made with Rho MD.