Reading Notes: British North America Tales, Reading B

 

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The story that I chose to focus on for this post is “Coyote and Fox” by Katharine Berry Judson (1917). This story is about the Coyote and the Fox in which the Fox outsmarts the Coyote in various occasions. The first is when Coyote was sleeping after eating a bunch of rabbits, he left some rabbits in the oven to which Fox took advantage of. Fox ate all the rabbits in the oven as Coyote was too lazy until eventually Coyote got hungry. Since there was no food left, Coyote ended up chasing the Fox but was never able to catch him. The next trick that Fox played on Coyote was when Coyote stole the robe that Fox made out of eagle feathers as Coyote wanted an upgrade of his magpie robe. Coyote was successful in stealing the robe, but Fox used magic to get the robe back. In this story as well as other stories in this section, I would say that magic is quite commonplace. In this story, the Fox uses magic to get his robe back, but it should be noted that Coyote is also capable of using magic. One thing about the writing style of this story is that the author capitalized the names of both Coyote and Fox in order to make give them more of a human-like character rather than the animals that we all know. The last thing that I thought was interesting about this story is that the Coyote is a common trickster in many Native American stories, so I thought it was nice how he was the one that got tricked in this story.

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