This story is part of the Cherokee Myths unit. Story source: Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney (1900).
First off, I was intrigued by the title of this story. It made me want to focus on both the plot of this story and the owl character of this story. This story begins with a widow and her daughter and the mother giving advice to her daughter on what kind of man to marry. She insisted that she has to marry a man that is a good hunter. Without any hesitation, the daughter promised her mother she would marry a man that was a good hunter. Conveniently a man arrived at their home and asked for the daughter's hand in marriage. The widowed mother was very skeptical and asked if he was a good hunter, because that was the only man her daughter could marry. He said he was just that, so he and the daughter lived in their own home. The next morning the husband said he would go out hunting, however changed his mind and said fishing. I take from this interaction that he isn't really a hunter. He returned that evening with only two fish and he was gone all day. This happened a couple more times, then he changed his mind and said he was going hunting instead of fishing. He returned that night with a handful of scraps that some hunters had cut off a deer. The daughter being suspicious decided to follow her husband when he went off to hunt. Before her own eye she saw him turn into an owl. Later that day when he returned home she asked where all the food was. He answered that there was none because an owl scared it all away. She confronted him and said, "I think you're an owl"and sent him away where he lived alone in the forest.
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