The first two stories of the second half of the Eskimo Folk
Tales unit were focused on the penalty for killing. In the first story, a man
is envious of his brother in law for being a better hunter than him. One day,
while they were out hunting, the man killed his wife’s brother. When he came
back, his wife’s mother said that he would pay for what he did. Eventually, a
monster that turned out to be the mother in law killed the man. The message of
the story was that if any man killed another without good cause, a monster
would come and kill him. The second story was very similar to the first. A man
killed another man because he wanted to be with his wife. And like the first
story, the man was eventually killed by a wolf (which happened to be the ghost
of the man that he killed) for what he did. The third story, titled “The Wife
Who Lied”, is about a woman who married a man of another tribe. When she went
and visited her own tribe, she lied and told them that they were not treating
her well. The tribe reacted by killing all of the women of the other tribe.
That tribe then got revenge on the other tribe by killing all of them. In the
end, the woman who lied was also killed. All three of these stories seem to send
messages that if one does wrong to innocent people, they will pay for their
actions. These stories were all short and straight to the point, making them
very easy to read.
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| (Drawing of Eskimos hunting seal. Source: Wikipedia) |
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