Myths of the Cherokee — Part 5 of 22 (The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting · The Rabbit and the Tar Wolf · Flint Visits the Rabbit)
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Ten tales of Tsistu the Rabbit, the trickster of the animal stories. He boasts he can eat ducks like the Otter and drops from the sky into a hollow stump; he tricks the Otter out of his coat with a shower of hot coals and loses his own tail to the Bear; the Possum's tail is clipped bare for the dance; the Wildcat plays dead while the Rabbit sings 'pick out the Gobbler'; the Terrapin's cousins win the great race across four ridges; the tar wolf catches the well thief, in Wafford's telling and in the Cherokee Advocate telling of eighteen forty-five; and the Rabbit's mallet and wedge scatter Flint over the whole country — which is why we find flint everywhere, and why the rabbit's lip is split. Source: James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), public domain; fresh in-house renderings faithful to Mooney's record, told in Mooney's order.
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Chapters:
0:00 Opening
0:39 The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting
3:13 How the Rabbit Stole the Otter's Coat
7:28 Why the Possum's Tail Is Bare
10:20 How the Wildcat Caught the Gobbler
12:27 How the Terrapin Beat the Rabbit
16:02 The Rabbit and the Tar Wolf
19:40 The Rabbit and the Possum after a Wife
21:47 The Rabbit Dines the Bear
22:50 The Rabbit Escapes from the Wolves
24:28 Flint Visits the Rabbit
