Reading B: Native American

Lodge Boy and Thrown Away

• A mother who is pregnant with two sons is killed and her sons are taken out and thrown away
• The red-women, who killed her then sticks a stick inside her to make her appear alive
• Uhhh ow and also what?
• Finding his wife dead and sons missing the husband begins to live alone
• After some time his sons come to him and then they revive his wife also
• The sons succeed in many tasks - defeating an canibol grandma, a serpent and some trees (?)
• Some snakes tried to enter the boys rectum
• Uhhh ow and also what?
• And then they did some more tasks

Son in Law Tests

• Wemicus (a god of some sort) always kills his daughters husbands (classic)
• The New Son-in Law is guided by his wife through a number of tasks
• Moccasin burning, sledding, canoeing, egg retrieval. 
• Eventually the son-in-law is successful and Wemicus is turned into a Pike

The Jealous father

• This father is (you guessed it) jealous of his son. Mostly for being young and also for sleeping with his second wife (lol) - I feel like there is a lot of father/son tension in these stories
• The father ditches his son on an island and he has to complete tasks to make it back home
• Eventually he does make it and burns his father to death and becomes a bird with his mother