Z's Myth-folklore Blog

  Getting Used to It     When things happen again and again to an individual, they become used to the action. When you first enter an odd-smelling room and notice the pungent scent, you eventually get used to it. When you move to a new school in a new state, unable to make friends and seem to succumb to the loneliness, you eventually get used to it. When Aunt Jennifer brings the same green bean casserole every Thanksgiving, you eventually get used to it.      The same goes for receiving. You never realize how much you take for granted until you realize that you are always being given to, because you eventually got used to it.     It was always easy for Max to see the world in a positive light because he always got what he wanted. The newest toys on Christmas, more money than he could store for his birthday. His family even celebrated Thanksgiving like it was called "Maxgiving", because it seemed like he was always asked what he wanted cooked for h...

  The Supernatural Person in the Lake Jicarilla Apache Texts  edited by Pliny Earle Goddard (1911). Long ago, an old woman gave her boy a present that he might become a medicine man. They were camping through the plains with nothing to eat but roots and wild seeds. They were all hungry. The woman came to her son and said, "My boy, I am hungry. Have not you anything?" Dialogue and immediate characters "Go home, and to-morrow you will have plenty to eat," her boy replied. The next day her son began to make a corral close by the river. He gathered the men together and told them to drive in the antelope. They drove them in and killed them. After butchering, they carried the meat home with them. The next day he gathered the people again. They drove antelope into the corral and killed great numbers of them. They brought home the meat with them. The next day he gathered the men again. They drove in antelope and killed very many. They carried the meat home. The antelope ran...