There was a man who lived in a village and was known to all
as the Unnatural Uncle. He would kill all of his nephews when they became two
years old. The wife of the uncle went to the mother of the children and planned
to keep the next child alive. They decided when another child was born, they
would lie to the uncle and say it was a girl. The next child was a boy and the
wife to the uncle lied about the child’s gender. They dressed the child as a
girl and told the child to act like a girl. The uncle was suspicious of the
child’s boyish looks. One day the uncle discovered the boy to be a boy. He
asked to see the boy so that he could kill him like the others. The boy knew
the uncle would try to murder him. They went into the woods together to gather
wood. The uncle left the boy to die trapped in a log but the boy escaped. The
uncle failed attempt one to kill him. The next day the boy again was summoned
by the Uncle. Next the uncle tried to push the child off a cliff but the child
survived by using a contraption he had. He returned with the ducks and eggs and
the uncle was upset. The next attempt was to go collect clams and have a giant
one swallow the child. The plan went as wanted but the child escaped by cutting
the clam’s tendon. He returned to home and the uncle was angry. Next the uncle
built a box and put the child in the box and floated him out to see. He washed
up on some shore. The box was opened by two girls and he was in Eagle Land with
the Eagle people. The chief let the child put on the eagle skin and fly home to
get his parents. He did but his parents weren’t home. He realized the torture his
uncle was putting his parents through so he swooped down and grabbed his uncle.
He told the uncle if he could swim to shore he would be spared but the uncle
could not swim. The boy then gathered his parents and flew them back to eagle
land to live happily.
Fledging Eagle
By KetaDesign found on Wiki
Bibliography:
Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929). Link
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