Here are some notes from Tejas Legends Pt. B
“Like many people, the hummingbird and the heron had the bad habit of gambling.” Another interesting anthropomorphised story to start off the second half of this unit. I like the quote. It’s almost like this is a sort of twisted children’s bedtime story used to teach kids not only about the reason that hummingbirds drink only dew but also that gambling is a bad habit and should not be done.
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| (Image Information: A ruby-throated hummingbird; Web Source: Wikimedia) |
This is a story of a young girl who, while out one night, sees a star and thinks that the star winked at her. She desires so badly to be with the star that she asks a witch what the best way for her to die is so she may be among the stars. The witch says she cannot die so young, but she does take her out and turn her into a bush. When the star sees this, he bursts and covers the bush in white dust and blossoms. Its an Indian love story.
In this story, a dying medicine man sends two young man to receive a message for him from The Great Spirit. While the two men are waiting, a snake comes towards them. They kill the snake and wait a while longer, but no one appears. When they return to the medicine man, they tell him of the snake and the medicine man is astonished. They killed the messenger. The two boys, in an attempt to avoid bad fortune, take the snake to another wigwam of a rival tribe. This tribe does the same to another, and this repeats for some time. Finally, the snakes wife finds every tribe that the snake has been to and lays an egg. Each egg contains a different sickness.
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