Notes on Marriage: The Rolling Head
- A man, his wife, and two children lived alone in a tent
- Every morning before the man left he painted his wife's face and body
- The wife went to get water at the nearby lake; she took off her clothes when there, and then a large snake came up, as if she summoned it. The snake asked the woman to come out to him since the husband was away hunting, and so she did. Every morning.
- The husband never knew she had met a snake; but one morning he had asked her how she got the paint off of her body, and she said she had simply just taken a bath
- The husband spied on the wife the next morning; he saw her undress for the snake and then he popped out and killed the snake and his wife
- He then brought home his wife cut in pieces and cooked her and then fed her body to his children
- The husband then left, and the mom's head came rolling in to talk to the kids and apologize
- The kids were terrified and ran to get away from it
- Finally, they stopped her then saw a deer and killed it just by looking at it, so they ate it
- Then the two kids had people help them and they were guarded by two large panthers and two large black bears as they lived in a large lodge and had much food of various kinds
- People started to stay with the kids because they were running low on food
- When their father stayed with them, they killed him because they were angry for how he treated their mom.
(Lodge; Image from Pixabay)
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