#buffalo tales

[slavicgirl123]

[cleanpokemonmemes]

Everybody’s got a water buffalo

[fictionadventurer]

Number 9 on the fairy tale retellings ask game

9. Fairy tale you love but have never found a retelling for

"The Boots of Buffalo Leather" is a Grimm's Fairy Tale that's so obscure I'd never heard it mentioned before I happened to turn to it in the collection, and I can barely even find the fairy tale itself online. But it's a super fun buddy tale where both main characters bring about fun twists, and I think it could be really fun to retell.

[scottpetersen]

What Powers Might Some Of The Miraculouses From The Native American Miracle Box Have?

Ok. Here I’ll be going over my thoughts on what powers some of the Miraculouses from the Native American Miracle Box might have based on the design of the Native American Miracle Box, animals the Miraculouses are themed on and the symbolism behind said animals. Keep in mind, though, that I’m no expert on animal symbolism or actual animals. So, be sure to take what I have to say here with a grain of salt. Also, I’ll only be going over the Miraculouses that are on the top level of the Native American Miracle Box because they appear to be the most important Miraculouses in the Native American Miracle Box. This post was also inspired by @familyagrestefanblog’s MI analysis: Native American miracle box post. With that out of the way, let’s dive right in.

First off, I’ll be explaining how I’ll be using the design of the Native American Miracle Box to help determine what powers its Miraculouses might have. @familyagrestefanblog used the Medicine Wheel among other things to determine the symbolism behind the Native American Miracle Box, particularly the top level. So, I think I’ll be using some of the same things he used. Now, after going over the Medicine Wheel and @familyagrestefanblog’s own notes on their Ml analysis: Native American miracle box post, I’m starting to think that the powers of all the Miraculouses positioned on the Native American Miracle Box’s top level have powers that have to do with a living thing’s energy and by extension their health in some way shape or form. I think that each of the 4 Miraculouses on the 4 quadrants around the center have a power that has to do with giving, holding, receiving and determining energy respectively. And I think Miraculous in the center has a power that has to do with a living thing’s energy in general. However, I think it should be noted that just because I’m using parts of each of the 4 quadrants to help determine the powers of the Miraculouses in the Native American Miracle Box doesn’t mean I’m gonna assign each of the 4 Miraculouses on the 4 quadrants on the Native American Miracle Box’s top level to one element on the Medicine Wheel. This is because I think the Medicine Wheel is strictly just a metaphor when it comes to helping to determine the powers of the Native American Miracle Box’s Miraculouses. I think this because of the Chinese Miracle Box’s design and the powers of the Miraculouses in the Chinese Miracle Box.

In the Chinese Miracle Box, the way the 5 quadrants around the yin-yang center are designed is, according to the YouTuber Cartoon Universe on her The Miracle Box EXPLAINED - Miraculous Ladybug Analysis video, based off of the Five Elements from ancient Chinese cosmology. And according to ancient Chinese cosmology, the Five Elements are listed as Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Wood, fire, earth, metal and water are literal elements. And the Fox Miraculous’s power to create illusions, the Turtle Miraculous’s power to create protective barriers, the Bee Miraculous’s power to paralyze people, the Peacock Miraculous’s power to create creatures from emotions and the Butterfly Miraculous’s power to change people into superpowered versions of themselves are definitely not powers based off of literal elements. So, that tells me that the powers of the Miraculouses on the 5 quadrants of the top level of the Chinese Miracle Box are probably based off of the Five Elements in a less literal way. The powers of those Miraculouses don’t correspond to the elements represented by the Five Elements but they do correspond to the elements of something else. And since, according to Miraculous Adventures #2, Tikki was the first Kwami to come into existence and Tikki’s Miraculous is in the center of the Chinese Miracle Box along with Plagg’s, that means that the Fox Miraculous’s Kwami Trixx, the Turtle Miraculous’s Kwami Wayzz, the Bee Miraculous’s Kwami Pollen, the Peacock Miraculous’s Kwami Duusu and the Butterfly Miraculous’s Kwami Nooroo are some of the first Kwamis, creatures that are born when an abstract concept first comes into existence, to come into existence. To help put things into perspective, since Tikki was born from the abstract concept of creation and Plagg was born from the abstract concept of destruction, Tikki and Plagg were probably born during the Big Bang with the abstract concept of creation that created Tikki emerging when the light that went on to burst into the Big Bang explosion came into existence and the abstract concept of destruction that created Plagg coming into existence right when the Big Bang explosion occurred. So, that probably means that the powers of their 5 Miraculouses correspond to 5 “elements” that came into existence after the Big Bang explosion that represent the fundamental nature of the cosmos more than any other. What I mean by “elements” here is that since the technical definition for the word “element” is ‘a part or aspect of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristic’, that means that the “5 elements” those 5 Miraculous’s powers correspond to could be things that represent the fundamental nature of the cosmos itself. I think that in this case, the Fox Miraculous’s power to make illusions corresponds to the Big Bang explosion’s energy that went on to form the cosmos because I think that the science hypothesis that said that “everything is energy” corresponds really well with the theory that “reality is an illusion” since if everything is energy, then everything is the same thing. Therefore, at the most fundamental level, there’s no different galaxies, no different planets, no different atoms, no different colors, not even any different things. So, the Fox Miraculous’s power to create illusions corresponds to the illusory aspect of the cosmos’ fundamental nature. Side Note: This doesn’t mean that existence and by extension life are meaningless. We give existence and by extension life meaning by making our effect on the energy that animates us. After all, literally every time we move, we convert the potential energy within us into kinetic energy. We give existence and by extension life meaning. We can’t just wait for existence to do it for us.]

Anyway, I think that the Turtle Miraculous’s power to create protective barriers corresponds to the cosmos’ duality, which first came into existence when the energy from the Big Bang’s explosion started making different movements to form the cosmos, because protective barriers are technically about separating something from something else and duality is all about there being multiple different things and thus separation between them. So, the Turtle Miraculous’s power to create protective barriers corresponds to the duality aspect of the cosmos’ fundamental nature.

Also, I think that the Bee Miraculous’s power to paralyze a person and thus freeze them in place corresponds to the moment. What I mean by the moment is each moment for the cosmos as a whole. I got this idea from how meditation practices sometimes emphasizes focusing on the present moment rather than the past or future in order to help attain enlightenment. And for each one of those moments, the entire cosmos is frozen in place and stuck in one motion until the next moment comes. It’s just like how the Bee Miraculous’s power freezes someone in place and make it so that they’re stuck in one motion. So, the Bee Miraculous’s power to freeze someone in place corresponds to the “the moment” aspect of the cosmos’ fundamental nature.

Next, I think that the Peacock Miraculous’s power to form a person’s emotions into a magical creature called a sentimonster corresponds to the cosmos’ form that first came into existence when the cosmos finally formed. Picture the person’s emotions that are being used to form a sentimonster as the Big Bang explosion’s energy that formed the cosmos and the sentimonster as the cosmos that was formed. Just like how the Big Bang explosion’s energy molded into the cosmos, the person’s emotions got molded into the sentimonster. So, the Peacock Miraculous’s power to form a person’s emotions into a sentimonster corresponds to the form aspect of the cosmos’ fundamental nature.

Finally, I think that the Butterfly Miraculous’s power to change someone from a normal person to a superpowered hero or villain corresponds to the cosmos’ changes ever since it was first formed. Picture nebula gas as a normal person and a star as a superpowered hero or villain. Just like how nebula gas eventually goes through a change and becomes a star, the Butterfly Miraculous’s power causes a normal person to go through a change and become a superpowered hero or villain. So, the Butterfly Miraculous’s power to change someone from a normal person into a superpowered hero or villain corresponds to the change aspect of the cosmos’ fundamental nature. [Side Note: I know the Butterfly Miraculous also has the ability to sense the thoughts and emotions of anyone in range. But when you really think about it, change can apply to that too. The type of change for that would be the fundamental type of change that exists between creation and destruction. Change is the middle point between creation and destruction because in order for a block of ice to be changed into water, the block of ice has to be melted and thus destroyed first. Once the ice is melted, it’s changed into water. The change happens between the destruction of the ice and the creation of the water. And in the meantime between after the ice is destroyed and before the water is created, there’s practically nothing there. It’s just nothingness. So, the nothingness is where change is stationed. So, the Butterfly Miraculous probably has an effect on the wielder’s body and mind that allows the wielder to have a bird’s eye view from the perverbial nothingness that allows them to sense the thoughts and emotions of anyone in range.]

In conclusion, how the powers of the Miraculouses on the 5 quadrants of the Chinese Miracle Box as well as the powers of the Miraculouses on the 4 quadrants of the Native American Miracle Box should be judged based on the designs of the quadrants should be from a metaphorical viewpoint. With all that out of the way, I’m gonna finally start listing my theories on the powers of the Miraculouses from the Native American Miracle Box based on how the proposed power matches up with the concepts of giving, holding, receiving, determining energy respectively as well as the symbolism and real life behavior and attributes of the animal of each Miraculous. I’ll be listing how the Eagle Miraculouses matches up with the concepts just to help the process of elimination.

The Eagle Miraculous’s power is, as shown in the Miraculous New York TV special, is the ability to free someone from any mental and/or emotional constraints. I think that matches up with the concept of giving energy because granting and thus giving someone freedom from their mental and/or emotional constraints is practically giving them more energy than their mental and/or emotional constraints usually allow.

This time, I’ll be going over what power the Buffalo Miraculous might have. I think the Buffalo Miraculous’s power is the ability to keep a person alive despite their injuries. This would be a nod to how buffalos are very strong and can keep on moving while pulling enormous weight. I think the power corresponds to the concept of holding energy. After all, keeping someone alive despite their injuries is keeping their energy within them and preventing it from expiring. [Side Note: Since the proposed Buffalo Miraculous power here has to do with making it so someone is able to persevere, the activation phrase is probably something around the lines of {Kwami’s Name} Persevere while the deactivation phrase is probably something around the lines of {Kwami’s Name} Give Up.]

Next, I’m gonna go over what power the Bear Miraculous might have. I think the Bear Miraculous’s power would be the ability to put people to sleep. It would be a nod to how bears sleep in hibernation. I think the power corresponds to the concept of receiving energy. After all, sleeping is all about rejuvenating your energy. [Side Note: Given that the proposed Bear Miraculous power here is all about sleep, the activation phrase for the Bear Miraculous is probably something around the lines of {Kwami’s Name} Wake Up or {Kwami’s Name} Awaken while the deactivation phrase is probably something around the lines of {Kwami’s Name} Sleep In.]

Now, I’m gonna go over what power the Wolf Miraculous might have. This one wasn’t really my idea. A DeviantArt and Tumblr user called @jess-the-vampire made a post on both DeviantArt and Tumblr about her own fan-made version of the Wolf Miraculous. On it, she said that her version of the Wolf Miraculous would have the power to summon others. And after taking into account how actual wolves sometimes howl to send a signal to other wolves, I think this fits. Also, I think the power corresponds to the concept of determining energy because accepting help makes it so that help determines whether or not your own life and by extension your own energy are saved. [Side Note: Since one of the things the Wolf Miraculous’s power corresponds to is a wolf’s howl, the activation phrase for the Wolf Miraculous is probably something around the lines of {Kwami’s Name} Howl while the deactivation phrase is probably something around the lines of {Kwami’s Name} Quiet Down.]

Finally, I’m gonna go over what power the Thunderbird Miraculous might have. As @familyagrestefanblog pointed out in their Ml analysis: Native American miracle box post, the thunderbird “is a mythological bird and is associated with legends starting from controlling the storms, lightnings and thunder to being the protector of the humans and even being a helper of the creation of reality”. It was the part about being a helper of the creation of reality that got me the most intrigued. Another part I focused a lot on was the part about controlling the storms, lightnings and thunder. When combining those 2 ideas in this particular context, it probably means that the power of the Thunderbird Miraculous has something to do with a key aspect of the cosmos as a whole that’s about the weather in some way. One pattern with the powers of the Eagle Miraculous, the Buffalo Miraculous, the Bear Miraculous and the Wolf Miraculous that I listed so far is that they all are powers meant specifically to affect people. And since the Thunder Miraculous is in the center between the 4 quadrants on the Native American Miracle Box, the Thunderbird Miraculous probably has a power that also has to do with an underlying phenomenon that affects people. And I think that the underlying phenomenon that the Thunderbird Miraculous’s power has to do with here is nature, the thing that dictates the course of the seasons, the evolution of life, the weather and everything that’s natural in the cosmos. So, the power of the Thunderbird Miraculous is probably the ability to manipulate nature. What I mean by manipulating nature is controlling anything that’s natural such as plants, the weather, etc. But it has to be something that’s natural. So, the Thunderbird Miraculous’s power can’t control a machine which is something that’s artificial and thus unnatural. The Thunderbird Miraculous won’t be able to control something like a magic blast since magic is supernatural and the supernatural is beyond the natural. [Side Note: Since the proposed Thunderbird Miraculous power here is all about nature itself and nature is sometimes about purity, the activation phrase for the Thunderbird Miraculous is probably something around the lines of {Kwami’s Name} Be Pure while the deactivation phrase is probably something around the lines of {Kwami’s Name} Be Impure.]

Well, that’s all for this post.

See you all next time.

[duesouthbigbang]

2023 dS/C6D Big Bang Chat #1

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[inthemoodforlight]

grazing and gazing

[bucatinibucatini]

Been listening to VeggieTales music lately, because it’s just funny and well written i’m not apologizing anyways loving Everybody’s Got a Water Buffalo from 1993 where a frantic Archibald bursts on to the set to yell at Larry.

Archibald: Stop it! Stop! Stop right this instant! What do you think you're doing!?! You can't say everyone got a water buffalo when everyone does NOT have a water buffalo! We're going to get nasty letters saying, "Where's my water buffalo?" "Why don't I have a water buffalo?" And are you prepared to deal with that? I don't think so! Just stop being so silly!

Anyways this is how everyone on the internet acts now after one too many decades being exposed to Disney movies with this as their exact message but unironically

[ironmandeficiency]

not me wanting to tag more ppl as veggietales silly songs bc i’m bored and nostalgic

[01sugarplumfairy]

🌟Billy Buffalo🌟Tale🔮🦬

[firstsentence]

"Scarcely were the words said than they all sat motionless and made of stone, and their mouths open and their right hands stretched up in the air." 🍵

[lexapro-princess]

Ultimate Girlblogger Movie List

1. Ballerina

2. To Catch a Thief

3. The Swan

4. Barbie In The Pink Shoes

5. Rhapsody

6. The Seven Year Itch

7. Thirteen

8. Mean Girls

9. Clueless

10. Girl, Interrupted

11. Marie Antoinette

12. Love In The Afternoon

13. Breakfast At Tiffany's

14. Roman Holiday

15. Barbie and hers sisters in a Pony Tale

16. Barbie of Swan Lake

17. Barbie In The Nutcracker

18. Barbie and the Diamond Castle

19. Barbie and the magic of Pegasus

20. Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper

21. Barbie: a Fashion Fairytale

22. Barbie In The 12 Dancing Princesses

23. Pride and Prejudice

24. Barbie as Rapunzel

25. Pearl

26. 13 going on 30

27. Funny Face

28. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

29. Charade

30. Black Swan

31. Niagara

32. The Virgin Suicides

33. Priscilla

34. Sabrina

35. Emma

36. How To Steal a Million

37. Enchanted

38. Some Like It Hot

39. Lolita (1962)

40. Lolita (1997)

41. The Crush

42. American Psycho

43. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

44. Monte Carlo

45. Legally Blonde

46. Confessions of a Shopaholic

47. The Devil Wears Prada

48. Valley Of The Dolls

49. Jackie

50. Jennifer's Body

51. Barbie: Princess Charm School

52. The Tourist

53. Abzurdah

54. Riding In Cars With Boys

55. I, Tonya

56. Buffalo 66

57. Girl

58. Heathers

59. Scarface (1983)

60. Gone Girl

61. Corpse Bride

62. Sense & Sensibility

63. Persuasion

64. Little Miss Perfect

65. Changeling

66. Gia

67. Uptown Girls

68. Suicide Squad

69. Last Night In Soho

70. Mirror Mirror

71. Birds Of Prey

72. The Beguiled

73. Palo Alto

74. Speak

75. Leon: The Professional

76. Prozac Nation

77. Red Eye

Let me know if I missed one, leave your suggestions by commenting or reblogging

[skyward-floored]

I really feel like Sky would have a lot of veggie tales songs memorized. Modern au or not. He just gives me those vibes. He starts singing I love my lips under his breath one day and the others are just ???

Sky doesn’t even think about how weird some of the songs are because he’s just used to them. “You mean you’ve never heard the water buffalo song? Or song of the cebu? None of you have heard Barbara Manatee??”

[brokehorrorfan]

Crimson Peak will be released on 4K Ultra HD on May 21 via Arrow Video. Guy Davis, the film’s concept artist, designed the packaging for the 2015 Gothic horror/romance.

Master of horror Guillermo del Toro directs from a script he co-wrote with frequent collaborator Matthew Robbins (Mimic, Pinocchio). Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, and Jim Beaver star.

The limited edition set comes with a double-sided fold-out poster, four double-sided postcards, and an 80-page book featuring writings by David Jenkins and Simon Abrams, an interview with Guillermo del Toro, and conceptual illustrations by Guy Davis and Oscar Chichoni, all housed in a slipcase.

Crimson Peak is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision, approved by del Toro, and original DTS:X Master Audio sound. Special features are listed below, where you can also see the full packaging.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director/co-writer Guillermo Del Toro

The House is Alive: Constructing Crimson Peak - Feature-length documentary with cast and crew interviews and behind the scenes footage

Spanish-language interview with Guillermo Del Toro

The Gothic Corridor; The Scullery; The Red Clay Mines; The Limbo Fog Set - Four featurettes on Allerdale Hall

A Primer on Gothic Romance featurette

The Light and Dark of Crimson Peak featurette

Hand Tailored Gothic featurette

A Living Thing featurette

Crimson Phantoms featurette

Beware of Crimson Peak - Walking tour of Allerdale Hall with Tom Hiddleston

Interview with film historian Kim Newman

Violence and Beauty in Guillermo Del Toro’s Gothic Fairy Tale Films - Video essay by the film historian Kat Ellinger

Deleted scenes

Original trailers and TV spots

Also included:

Double-sided foldout poster

Four double-sided postcards

80-page, hard-bound book with writing by David Jenkins and Simon Abrams, an interview with Guillermo del Toro, and conceptual illustrations by artists Guy Davis and Oscar Chichoni

Beginning in Buffalo, New York, during the 1880s, Crimson Peak follows Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), an aspiring writer who is haunted by the death of her mother. Edith’s falls in love with seductive stranger Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), who whisks her off to Allerdale Hall, his baronial, yet dilapidated English mansion built upon a mountain of blood-red clay. Here Edith meets Lucille (Jessica Chastain), Thomas’s sister who at times seems hostile and jealous. As Edith struggles to feel at home in the imposing residence, she gradually uncovers a horrendous family secret and encounters supernatural forces that will help her discover the terrible truth behind Crimson Peak.

Pre-order Crimson Peak.

[whencyclopedia]

The Dun Horse

The Dun Horse is a Pawnee tale about a poor boy and his grandmother, who find an old horse and take it in. The horse turns out to be magical, however, and improves their fortunes considerably. Like many Pawnee legends – and Native American tales generally – the story highlights the importance of kindness and of following instructions.

In Pawnee spiritual belief, the Great Spirit was the Creator God Ti-ra'wa ("Father Above"), who, despite any evidence to the contrary, was always in control of the created world. Aspects of the world that one judged to be "good" or "bad" were only so in one's opinion as no "bad" thing could come from Ti-ra'wa. The wisdom of the elders, and of the natural world, was understood to come from this same source, and so there are many stories of talking animals, or of elder characters, providing instruction which one ignored at one's peril.

In many stories, including the Wihio tales of the Cheyenne and the Iktomi tales of the Sioux, failing to follow instructions leads to failure – or even death – while, in The Dun Horse, the central character is given a second chance by Ti-ra'wa after his failure, learns from his mistake, and is rewarded for his kindness, faithfulness, and courage.

Text

The following is taken from Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales (1889) by George Bird Grinnell. As in many Native American tales, the number four is repeated as it is understood as sacred, representing the cardinal points of the compass and the spirits who preside over the directions.

I.

Many years ago, there lived in the Pawnee tribe an old woman and her grandson, a boy about sixteen years old. These people had no relations and were very poor. They were so poor that they were despised by the rest of the tribe. They had nothing of their own; and always, after the village started to move the camp from one place to another, these two would stay behind the rest, to look over the old camp, and pick up anything that the other Indians had thrown away, as worn out or useless. In this way they would sometimes get pieces of robes, worn out moccasins with holes in them, and bits of meat.

Now, it happened one day, after the tribe had moved away from the camp, that this old woman and her boy were following along the trail behind the rest, when they came to a miserable old worn-out dun horse, which they supposed had been abandoned by some Indians. He was thin and exhausted, was blind of one eye, had a bad sore back, and one of his forelegs was very much swollen. In fact, he was so worthless that none of the Pawnees had been willing to take the trouble to try to drive him along with them. But when the old woman and her boy came along, the boy said, "Come now, we will take this old horse, for we can make him carry our pack." So, the old woman put her pack on the horse, and drove him along, but he limped and could only go very slowly.

II.

The tribe moved up on the North Platte, until they came to Court House Rock. The two poor Indians followed them and camped with the others. One day while they were here, the young men who had been sent out to look for buffalo, came hurrying into camp and told the chiefs that a large herd of buffalo were near, and that among them was a spotted calf.

The Head Chief of the Pawnees had a very beautiful daughter, and when he heard about the spotted calf, he ordered his old crier to go about through the village and call out that the man who killed the spotted calf should have his daughter for his wife. For a spotted robe is ti-war´-uks-ti—big medicine .

The buffalo were feeding about four miles from the village, and the chiefs decided that the charge should be made from there. In this way, the man who had the fastest horse would be the most likely to kill the calf. Then all the warriors and the young men picked out their best and fastest horses and made ready to start. Among those who prepared for the charge was the poor boy on the old dun horse. But when they saw him, all the rich young braves on their fast horses pointed at him, and said, "Oh, see; there is the horse that is going to catch the spotted calf;" and they laughed at him, so that the poor boy was ashamed, and rode off to one side of the crowd, where he could not hear their jokes and laughter.

When he had ridden off some little way, the horse stopped, and turned his head round, and spoke to the boy. He said, "Take me down to the creek, and plaster me all over with mud. Cover my head and neck and body and legs." When the boy heard the horse speak, he was afraid; but he did as he was told. Then the horse said, "Now mount, but do not ride back to the warriors, who laugh at you because you have such a poor horse. Stay right here, until the word is given to charge." So, the boy stayed there.

And presently all the fine horses were drawn up in line and pranced about and were so eager to go that their riders could hardly hold them in; and at last, the old crier gave the word, "Loo-ah"—Go! Then the Pawnees all leaned forward on their horses and yelled, and away they went. Suddenly, away off to the right, was seen the old dun horse. He did not seem to run. He seemed to sail along like a bird. He passed all the fastest horses, and in a moment, he was among the buffalo. First, he picked out the spotted calf, and charging up alongside of it, U-ra-rish! straight flew the arrow. The calf fell. The boy drew another arrow and killed a fat cow that was running by. Then he dismounted and began to skin the calf before any of the other warriors had come up. But when the rider got off the old dun horse, how changed he was! He pranced about and would hardly stand still near the dead buffalo. His back was all right again; his legs were well and fine; and both his eyes were clear and bright.

The boy skinned the calf and the cow that he had killed, and then he packed all the meat on the horse and put the spotted robe on top of the load, and started back to the camp on foot, leading the dun horse. But even with this heavy load the horse pranced all the time and was no longer scared at everything he saw. On the way to camp, one of the rich young chiefs of the tribe rode up by the boy and offered him twelve good horses for the spotted robe, so that he could marry the Head Chief's beautiful daughter; but the boy laughed at him and would not sell the robe.

Now, while the boy walked to the camp leading the dun horse, most of the warriors rode back, and one of those that came first to the village, went to the old woman, and said to her, "Your grandson has killed the spotted calf." And the old woman said, "Why do you come to tell me this? You ought to be ashamed to make fun of my boy because he is poor." The warrior said, "What I have told you is true," and then he rode away. After a little while another brave rode up to the old woman, and said to her, "Your grandson has killed the spotted calf." Then the old woman began to cry, she felt so badly because everyone made fun of her boy, because he was poor.

Pretty soon the boy came along, leading the horse up to the lodge where he and his grandmother lived. It was a little lodge, just big enough for two, and was made of old pieces of skin that the old woman had picked up and was tied together with strings of rawhide and sinew. It was the meanest and worst lodge in the village. When the old woman saw her boy leading the dun horse with the load of meat and the robes on it, she was very much surprised. The boy said to her, "Here, I have brought you plenty of meat to eat, and here is a robe, that you may have for yourself. Take the meat off the horse." Then the old woman laughed, for her heart was glad. But when she went to take the meat from the horse's back, he snorted and jumped about, and acted like a wild horse. The old woman looked at him in wonder and could hardly believe that it was the same horse. So, the boy had to take off the meat, for the horse would not let the old woman come near him.

III.

That night the horse spoke again to the boy and said, "Wa-ti-hes Chah´-ra-rat wa-ta. To-morrow the Sioux are coming—a large war party. They will attack the village, and you will have a great battle. Now, when the Sioux are drawn up in line of battle, and are all ready to fight, you jump on to me, and ride as hard as you can, right into the middle of the Sioux, and up to their Head Chief, their greatest warrior, and count coup on him, and kill him, and then ride back. Do this four times, and count coup on four of the bravest Sioux, and kill them, but don't go again. If you go the fifth time, maybe you will be killed, or else you will lose me. La-ku´-ta-chix—remember." So, the boy promised.

The next day it happened as the horse had said, and the Sioux came down and formed a line of battle. Then the boy took his bow and arrows, and jumped on the dun horse, and charged into the midst of them. And when the Sioux saw that he was going to strike their Head Chief, they all shot their arrows at him, and the arrows flew so thickly across each other that the sky became dark, but none of them hit the boy. And he counted coup on the Chief, and killed him, and then rode back. After that he charged again among the Sioux, where they were gathered thickest, and counted coup on their bravest warrior, and killed him. And then twice more, until he had gone four times as the horse had told him.

But the Sioux and the Pawnees kept on fighting, and the boy stood around and watched the battle. And at last, he said to himself, "I have been four times and have killed four Sioux, and I am all right, I am not hurt anywhere; why may I not go again?" So, he jumped on the dun horse, and charged again. But when he got among the Sioux, one Sioux warrior drew an arrow and shot. The arrow struck the dun horse behind the forelegs and pierced him through. And the horse fell down dead. But the boy jumped off, and fought his way through the Sioux, and ran away as fast as he could to the Pawnees. Now, as soon as the horse was killed, the Sioux said to each other, "This horse was like a man. He was brave. He was not like a horse." And they took their knives and hatchets, and hacked the dun horse and gashed his flesh, and cut him into small pieces.

The Pawnees and Sioux fought all day long, but toward night the Sioux broke and fled.

IV.

The boy felt very badly that he had lost his horse; and, after the fight was over, he went out from the village to where it had taken place, to mourn for his horse. He went to the spot where the horse lay, and gathered up all the pieces of flesh, which the Sioux had cut off, and the legs and the hoofs, and put them all together in a pile. Then he went off to the top of a hill nearby and sat down and drew his robe over his head and began to mourn for his horse.

As he sat there, he heard a great windstorm coming up, and it passed over him with a loud rushing sound, and after the wind came a rain. The boy looked down from where he sat to the pile of flesh and bones, which was all that was left of his horse, and he could just see it through the rain. And the rain passed by, and his heart was very heavy, and he kept on mourning.

And pretty soon, came another rushing wind, and after it a rain; and as he looked through the driving rain toward the spot where the pieces lay, he thought that they seemed to come together and take shape, and that the pile looked like a horse lying down, but he could not see well for the thick rain.

After this, came a third storm like the others; and now when he looked toward the horse, he thought he saw its tail move from side to side two or three times, and that it lifted its head from the ground. The boy was afraid, and wanted to run away, but he stayed.

And as he waited, there came another storm. And while the rain fell, looking through the rain, the boy saw the horse raise himself up on his forelegs and look about. Then the dun horse stood up.

V.

The boy left the place where he had been sitting on the hilltop and went down to him. When the boy had come near to him, the horse spoke and said, "You have seen how it has been this day; and from this you may know how it will be after this. But Ti-ra´-wa has been good and has let me come back to you. After this, do what I tell you; not any more, not any less." Then the horse said, "Now lead me off, far away from the camp, behind that big hill, and leave me there to-night, and in the morning come for me;" and the boy did as he was told.

And when he went for the horse in the morning, he found with him a beautiful white gelding, much more handsome than any horse in the tribe. That night the dun horse told the boy to take him again to the place behind the big hill, and to come for him the next morning; and when the boy went for him again, he found with him a beautiful black gelding. And so for ten nights, he left the horse among the hills, and each morning he found a different colored horse, a bay, a roan, a gray, a blue, a spotted horse, and all of them finer than any horses that the Pawnees had ever had in their tribe before.

Now the boy was rich, and he married the beautiful daughter of the Head Chief, and when he became older, he was made Head Chief himself. He had many children by his beautiful wife, and one day when his oldest boy died, he wrapped him in the spotted calf robe and buried him in it. He always took good care of his old grandmother and kept her in his own lodge until she died. The dun horse was never ridden except at feasts, and when they were going to have a doctors' dance, but he was always led about with the Chief, wherever he went. The horse lived in the village for many years, until he became very old. And at last, he died.

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i’m sure you’ve mentioned it before but can you explain why aurochs are extinct now. also if they were still around today, do you think we’d use them for a specific purpose? / what would you use them for

hihii! its a tale as old as time unfortunately.. habitat loss and overhunting frm humans eventually drove the aurochs 2 extinction :(

it was a long, long, long time ago, in the 17th century (ovr 300 years!) ! and tho i love and miss the aurochs deeply we have lots of big bovines that fill their ecological niche, like various types of buffalo and gaur!

im not super sure that we would use aurochs for anything as they were described as super big and super violent, and we already have domestic cattle which are descended from them! but its neat to look back at where they came from, you know?

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