Sun-snarer: burnt mantle. A boy is angered because the sun burned his mantle. He makes a snare and catches the sun and delays him so that everything is burning up. A mouse finally gnaws the snare in two.
Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A728.1
“Presently she heard someone crying, and going over to the place whence the sound came she found that it was her youngest brother who was in distress. She said to him, “My brother, why are you weeping?” — to which he replied, “‘Look at me; I am sad because the Sun burned my beaver-skin robe; I have been cruelly treated this day.’ Then he turned his face away and continued to weep. Even in his sleep he sobbed, because of his distress.”
— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 15 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan
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