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Coyote Marries his Own Daughter, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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18. Coyote Marries his Own Daughter as told by Sam Kenoi
 18.1. 
Coyote lived with his many children.
 18.2. 
Then he pretended to be sick.
 18.3. 
Then his wife made a bed for him there.
 18.4. 
Then he lay down up there.
 18.5. 
Then he spoke thus to his wife:
 18.6. 
He had sexual desires toward his daughter. So he spoke thus.
 18.7. 
They knew him by a large wart that was on the side of his head.
 18.8. 
Then, every day, his wife swept [the ground] under him.
 18.9. 
Then, the next day, his wife was coming again to the place under him.
 18.10. 
"The worms have fallen. We shall go right away. 'When the worms fall, you will go.' he said to us."
 18.11. 
Sadly, they started off.
 18.12. 
Then he spoke thus to his mother:
 18.13. 
Then his mother spoke thus to him:
 18.14. 
In spite of that, the little one spoke thus to his mother:
 18.15. 
But then his mother stopped him.
 18.16. 
Then, at a place still further on, that Coyote himself, carrying four prairie dogs, met his children.
 18.17. 
Then that Coyote, when he met his children, spoke thus to them:
 18.18. 
Then his wife spoke thus to him:
 18.19. 
Then, though it was indeed him, he spoke thus to her:
 18.20. 
Then she spoke thus to him:
 18.21. 
Then he spoke thus to her:
 18.22. 
Then she gave him her oldest daughter.
 18.23. 
"My wife, search for lice on me."
 18.24. 
Putting his head in her lap, he lay on his side as she searched for lice on him.
 18.25. 
Then he spoke thus to her:
 18.26. 
Then that girl thought thus.
 18.27. 
And a big wart was on the side of his head!
 18.28. 
She went back to him with her mother.
 18.29. 
[The mother] picked up a big stone.
  
Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

Hoijer, Harry

University of Chicago Press
Chicago
1938
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