Native American Trickster Tales (3 of 6)

Publication Date: June 8, 2011

Chapter: American Literature to 1700

Hey, it's your lucky day! I actually found a scan of the same exact version of the "Winnebago Trickster Cycle" I'm reading right now in the Norton on Google Books. Enjoy, won't you? The material I'm covering starts at Part 19.

Anyway, if you can't be bothered to read a few paragraphs, here's the gist: The Trickster and his brothers are starving and doubt they can last the winter. In order to survive, the Trickster tells his brothers about a village nearby, where the son of the Chief wants to get married. Therefore, the Trickster will disguise himself as a woman, marry the Chief's son, and then somehow provide relief for his pals until spring.

The Trickster's disguise involves harvesting the innards of other animals and using them to simulate female sex organs.

And... yeah, I think that's going on my list of "Sentences I Never Thought In A Million Years I'd Actually Write." Anyway, after cleverly disguising himself, he then promptly invites his brothers to impregnate him, because I guess that's a thing that can happen.

As an aside, if you can slice apart other animals in order to make your disguise, why can't you just slice them apart and eat them to survive Did I mention that these Native American myths make absolutely no sense? Because they don't. They really, really don't.

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