Reading Notes: Hero Tales, Part A

 Main characters:

• Unnatural Uncle
• The Boy

Secondary characters:

• The Wife of Unnatural Uncle
• The Parents of the Boy
• The Eagle People

Important things to remember:

• The Jealous Uncle
• Unnatural Uncle would kill his nephews once they would reach a couple years old, he did this to two nephews
• The wife of the Unnatural Uncle told him the next born was a girl when it was actual a boy, so he agreed to let the "girl" live
• This child grew up dressing and playing with girls, but the Unnatural Uncle always noticed the boyish figure
• The Uncle realized he was a boy, and took him to the woods to search for wood
• He trapped the boy in between logs and left him there, but the sour cranberry in the boys pocket was so sour the logs opened up
• The boy brought wood by the Uncle's house, and the Uncle vowed to kill him
• The Jealous Uncle Part 2
• The Uncle took the boy to search for eggs and ducks, and pushed him into a trap
• The Uncle left him for dead, but did not know the boy had eagle-down in his hand that kept him in the air
• He brought eggs by the Uncle's house once again
• The Uncle next took him to search for clam, and one of the clams ate the boy
• The Uncle left him for dead, but he cut his way out with a knife and left clams at the Uncle's door
• The Uncle made a box for the boy to play it, but it was a trap
• The Jealous Uncle Part 3
• The Uncle trapped him in the box and set him out to sea, and after a long time at sea he came on land
• He was picked up by strangers, who took the box into a village, the Eagle people in Eagle land
• After much time in eagle land, the eagle people got his parents and now they all live in this land

The boy in the woods, via Vecteezy

Story from: Native American Hero Tales, http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/myth-folklore-unit-native-american_10.html