Mythology & Folklore

(Owl at Night from Random Thoughts ) "The Indian Who Wrestled a Ghost" - Teton Story I actually read this story at the beginning of the semester and wrote my first story about it. But I was having trouble staying under 1,000 words so it was not added to the blog stream for people to read and comment. this story tells of a young man who goes on the warpath alone he walks for a long while until he comes to a clearing in the woods he hears an owl calling in a lot of Native traditions owls are seen as omens of death foreshadowing he makes camp in the clearing and at midnight he is disturbed by the wailing of a woman crying "my son! my son!" the man covers himself with his blanket and plays dead as the woman approaches the woman lifts his leg and he lets it fall as if he were dead the woman pulls out a rusty knife to cut off his foot  he jumps up and scares the woman away when he gets up in the morning he notices a burial scaffold in the clearing and...

"The Ghost's Resentment" A Dakota tale tells the story of a man who warns his father and his father's two friends not to disturb the burial scaffold of a young Dakota man the father does not listen and says that he and his friends will go to the scaffold and cut off pieces of the burial tent to make robes because they have no robes the man asks his wife to fetch him a piece of white clay so that he may cover his skin with it - making himself look like a ghost the woman refuses and tells her husband to let the old men make their robes the man is persistent and she eventually gets the white clay the man whitened his whole body with the clay and went to the burial scaffold took a different route than the old men and traveled faster when he reached the burial scaffold the man climbed in the burial tent to wait for the old men when the old men reached the burial scaffold they decided to smoke a pipe with the deceased before cutting pieces of the tent t...