the girl (Sun-Catcher legend)
Role: girl · First appears: The Sun-Catcher; or, the Boy who set a Snare for the Sun
In The Sun-Catcher; or, the Boy who set a Snare for the Sun, the girl and her little brother, the boy (Sun-Catcher legend), live in fear and seclusion after the animals have killed everyone else. One day, she gives him a bow and arrows and teaches him to hide and hunt snowbirds.
At the end of ten days, she makes him a tiny snare cord from sinews taken from her body and hands it to him. She also remembers a piece of dried deer’s sinew left by her father (Sun-Catcher legend), which she makes into a string suitable for a noose.
Relationship record
Life events
- The girl gives the boy a bow and arrows and teaches him to hunt snowbirds.(The Sun-Catcher; or, the Boy who set a Snare for the Sun)
- With: the boy (Sun-Catcher legend)
- “She made him a bow and arrows, and said to him one day, ‘I will leave you behind where I have been chopping--you must hide yourself, and you will soon see the Gitshee-gitshee-gaun-ia-see-ug, or snow birds, come and pick the worms out of the wood, where I have been chopping’”
- The girl makes the boy a snare from sinews taken from her body.(The Sun-Catcher; or, the Boy who set a Snare for the Sun)
- With: the boy (Sun-Catcher legend)
- “This she did, and twisting them into a tiny cord, she handed it to her brother.”
The Sun-Catcher; or, the Boy who set a Snare for the Sun
- siblings with the boy (Sun-Catcher legend) “At the time when the animals reigned in the earth, they had killed all but a girl, and her little brother, and these two were living in fear and seclusion.”
- parent: her father (Sun-Catcher legend) “She said she had nothing; but finally recollected a little piece of dried deer's sinew, that her father had left, which she soon made into a string suitable for a noose.”
- recipient: the boy (Sun-Catcher legend) “At last she thought of her hair, and pulling some of it out of her head, made a string.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends. Made with Rho MD.