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The Owl Gets Married is interesting, but again I am rather confused. The form each character takes is not clear. I do not know if someone is an owl at one point or if they are humans the whole time. That was the other thing. The reaction of the wife seeing her husband turn into an owl (I think) is not realistic. The husband comes home and she isn't weirded out by him being an owl. She is just mad that he doesn't provide enough food for her. The wife is extremely selfish and the husband gets kicked out. The logic of the story is just off.
Now, I really did like the plot and the conflict elements. There is a ton of controversy to play with and use.
I did not understand the last part. The husband gets kicked out and lives until there is no flesh left on any part of his body except his head. I don't know what that means. He is completely owl or what?
The Rattlesnake's Vengeance was a really intense story for me to read. The wife killed a snake and the husband agreed with a snake clan to let one serpent follow him to kill her to equal things out. The snake killed her and gave the husband a song to sing that heals if he should ever be attacked by a snake.
I could never do what that man did. I realize I would've died, but my wife would be alive. M mind doesn't work like that. I have noticed that these Cherokee stories are kind of heartless. Now, all Cherokee are not like this, but man it makes you wonder about their societies. I have studied Cherokee, the language and history, a while now. They do not seem like what these stories present them to be.
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