5. The Boy Who Snared The Sun - Chapter 5 - American Indian Fairy Tales
Channel: Terra's Tapestry
Date: 08/02/2024

In this story, Morning Glory and her little brother is listened and old man tell the story about the great dormouse. At the time the only two human left on the earth. One girl like you Morning Glory and a boy like you Eagle Feather the old man said. The winter is coming so she have to teach her little brother how to keep warm and how to use an arrow and bow to entertain himself when she leave for a long trip. On the boys was working for his grasses coat he saw a flock fly overhead and thought to himself "I wonder how I can use this arrow and a bow to take down the goose and use the feathers for his coat. The boy was trained himself, he practiced to used the arrow and shoot to the tree. Each day the boy practiced, at last he killed the gooses and take their feather to give to his sister. So the sister sewed the skin together to make her brother coat. One day the boy go for a hunt with his new coat. He walked and walked and soon became tired, so he decided to lay down under the large tree. As he slept the sun played trick on him. Under the sun the coats began shrivel and shrink. The coat become tighter and tighter. He became angry and yelled to the sun "I will have my revenge just wait and see". The boys devised a plan to catch the sun with a noose. The boys asked her sister to make a rope for him. When the sun begin to rise the boy captured the sun with a rope and pulled it down. Darkness fell upon the earth. All the animal become distress. One day, the giant dormouse come to help the other animal. The dormouse find the snooze and start to nibble it until the sun is free from the boy. But, because the action the big dormouse become a small size as a today.