Week 11: Cherokee Part B

A woman told her daughter to only marry a good hunter. Courters came and went but the daughter never took a husband because she was waiting for a good hunter. Finally, a man came and said he was a good hunter and wanted to marry the girl. The mother told her daughter to go with the man. The husband left the next morning to go hunting but decided to fish instead. He only brought back 3 small fish though saying he had no luck. The next day he came back with only a few lizards. The mother became suspicious of him and told the daughter to follow him. When he left the house and entered the woods, he transformed into an owl. When he returned, the daughter confronted him about being an owl. She was so upset she threw him out. So the owl went to the woods to live in grief pining for his wife.







Bibliography: Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney (1900).
Image information: Pixabay, Owl`