Reading Notes B: Eskimo Folk Tales

In the Eskimo folk tales the stories were a little different but still the same. The first story talked about how man came to be which is discussed a lot among the Native Americans and their stories. In the second story there was a group of brothers and there was one brother who didn't have a wife. Later on in the story that one brother heard one of his brothers talk about killing the brother with no wife. When he confronted his brother the one plotting to kill dropped dead. He was creating a monster through magical powers to kill his brother. Once he died the monster betrayed him and started to eat his brother. The brother with no wife went back to all of his brothers and didn't say anything about what had happened. A little while later they all got worried and decided to look for him. The brother with no wife told them they should look at the island where no one goes which is exactly where the brother had died. They get there and see what had happened but don't blame anyone for it but rather just bury the body.

Another story that stood out to me was the story of the dog. In this story there was a dog as big as a whale which would hunt for its owner. The owner treated the dog like a son because he did not have a son. Over time the dog started to attack people and kill them. Then one day a man came to kill the dog with three dogs which were the size of bears. The dog that was as big as a whale killed all of them within on bite. The owner was worried for other people so anytime a traveler came he would hide them so the dog could not kill them. Eventually the dog would go to the town nearest to him and bring back legs of humans that he had attacked in the town. The Eskimos say that this is the reason people should fear dogs because they will bite your leg off just because of this one dog.

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