Joe's Myths

There was once a man named Steve who had a son, Mike. Mike was very in to cosplaying, or wearing costumes of his favorite video game characters and meeting others like him. Steve did not understand this, nor did he want to. He stayed as far away from Mike's cosplaying as he physically could. One day, Mike was getting into his costume, with the help of his mother, to go to a convention when his father came downstairs. It had been a particularly hard week on Steve and he was non too pleased to see his son dressed like he was. He became irate with his wife about how she enabled this weirdness in their son and eventually slammed a book on the table to express his frustration. Steve's wife took this as a cue to leave, and hurridly took Mike to his convention. After cooling down a little bit, Steve realized he had made a mistake and was determined to apologize for it. He knew where the convention was taking place and drove there himself. When he got to the convention hall, he spoke...

A common theme I'm seeing in these stories is people not doing what they're told. In the first case, it's the crow not telling the people that the girl is dead. I don't remember any others of the top of my head, but this fact remains pretty consistantly. Also, there is another story with animal sex. At least this time somebody sees something wrong with it, although it's a bit weird that their first assumption upon seeing a pregnant woman is "the dog must've done it." Makes me concerned about the rest of those people's lives. This dude is friends with the deer despite being an avid deer hunter. You know who my best friend is? A serial killer. Makes a lot of sense if you don't think about it. These people have some sort of cannabilistic ritual where they knowingly kill and eat each other but magically bring them back to life. That's got to be some sort of torture. Magic turkeys who expect a lot in return for their magic.All of that last story...

Immediately starts with bestiality and rape. This is going to be fun. Nobody questioned why the young unmarried boy was a father or who the mother was and then let him take the kid. Wholesome people we have here. Then the raped cow becomes a woman, because why not. That first story was wild from the start and only got weirder. The second one involved less rape, but was still strange. She killed her entire family, essentially forcing them to ascend to the stars, because nobody could figure out how to tell this guy no. The rest of the stories use the same general scheme: some odd marriage request involving animals and some of the animals try to help. I'm not a fan of using animals as main characters, so I didn't take very many notes here. A mole and a badger, two of the most useful animals. Link Bibliography: Tales of the North by Stith Thompson Link