Paige's Mythology and Folklore Blog

Why the Dog's Tail Goes Between Their Legs Many years ago, before dog came to live with man, a dog had ears that stuck up to the sky and a tail that pointed straight up. This is how the dog was always known to look; strong and sturdy. One night a dog was wondering around the forest searching for food, he was starving and hadn't eaten in three days. The dog came upon a village, he saw the men roasting their meat and saw the women preparing other delicious looking foods. The dog was desperate and was willing to do anything to eat. He approached the man and kindly asked for a portion of their meat. The man immediately began to laugh and shooed the dog away. But he was starving, he proposed that if they were to give him food he would be their most loyal companion and protector. The man took a minute, but agreed. The dog became man's best friend, he went everywhere with man and the man fed him as promised. Many days went on like this, the dog and the man were as happy as can b...

Why the Dog's Ears Flop Florence Stratton introduces the scene for the story introduces what the story is going to discuss sets up what the story is set to discuss provides reason for a certain animal trait talks about a past story the past story is the reason for the current trait discusses before and after traits of the animal animal comes in contact with humans gives examples of how the animal helped the humans explains story of the animal getting in trouble by the humans the animal was tricked by his own kind because the animal was ashamed he gained his new traits the story explains why the animal is the way it is today The point-eared dog prior to being timid . 

Grandmother River's Trick By: Florence Stratton introduces the setting introduces all the characters sets up the problem that is trying to be fixed uses adjectives to describe what they look like sets up the protagonist and the antagonist new character is introduced to help with the problem uses supernatural events supernatural event occurs to help the problem this tricks the protagonists the supernatural event and the character trick them they are now saved and alive protagonists are mad they live happily Gar fish.