Difference between revisions of "Kirrish wolf story"
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| − | The | + | The woman took her snowshoes, and walked north. She found nothing. |
| − | The | + | She walked west, and found nothing. |
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| + | She walked south, and found two marmots. She singed off their fur, and ate them. | ||
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| + | She walked east and found the tracks of a person who was also a wolf. She walked east and the ground rose beneath her; she walked east, into the hills. | ||
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| + | She came out of the mist to a wide, flat plain. Her snowshoes sank deep. The tracks of the person who was also a wolf turned back; they curved back the way she had come. | ||
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| + | The woman looked north, and everything there was flat and white. She looked south, and everything there was flat and white. She looked east, and saw mist rising up, rising as high as she could see, opaque and white. She looked west, and saw the footprints of the person who was also a wolf. | ||
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| + | The woman walked west. With her steps, snow fell; from her footprints, snow fell on the world below. | ||
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Latest revision as of 20:11, 14 January 2020
Fragments of a Kirrish folk tale about a person who was also a wolf:
The woman took her snowshoes, and walked north. She found nothing.
She walked west, and found nothing.
She walked south, and found two marmots. She singed off their fur, and ate them.
She walked east and found the tracks of a person who was also a wolf. She walked east and the ground rose beneath her; she walked east, into the hills.
She came out of the mist to a wide, flat plain. Her snowshoes sank deep. The tracks of the person who was also a wolf turned back; they curved back the way she had come.
The woman looked north, and everything there was flat and white. She looked south, and everything there was flat and white. She looked east, and saw mist rising up, rising as high as she could see, opaque and white. She looked west, and saw the footprints of the person who was also a wolf.
The woman walked west. With her steps, snow fell; from her footprints, snow fell on the world below.
