boas] COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TSIMSHIAX MYTHOLOGY 751 



(d) Other Marriages of Women to Animals or Supernatural Beings 



(Tsl66; Kai254— Tsl77; Ts 232; Ts 272; Ts297; N 229; Ts 871; Tl 238; M 554; 

 M 508; M 625; Sk 151— M 560; Kai 260) 



In quite a number of stories it is merely stated that the animal 

 or supernatural being appeared and married the girl, generally 

 against the wishes of her parents. 



A girl refuses to marry her cousin, although her parents desire her to do so. The 

 women go out to gather fern roots and go into camp. It is chilly and they make a fire. 

 Suddenly a man who looks like the princess's cousin appears and offers to take her 

 home. She agrees, and, at the request of her aunt, accompanies him. She lies down 

 in his canoe. He covers her over; and when they arrive at the village, it turns out 

 that the Land Otter has taken her along. The Land Otter marries her Ts 166. 

 Analogous to this is a Kaigani story: A chief does not want to give away his daughter. 

 One day ten canoes come, and she agrees to go with them. She tells them to camp 

 not far from the town and to send two men. She pretends to go out for water and 

 goes off with the visitors. She goes aboard one of the canoes and covers her face. 

 ■\\"hen somebody pulls her hair, she looks through a hole in her blanket and sees that 

 she is being taken away by Land Otters, who are diving under patches of seaweed. 

 They arrive at their town, and she marries a white Land Otter Kai 254. 



A youth appears to a girl. Her parents do not want to give up their daughter, and 

 the youth takes her away in the morning. He makes her lie down in the canoe and 

 takes her to his house. He turns out to be Mink Ts 177. 



A youth appears to a princess whom her parents do not want to give away in mar- 

 riage. She accepts him. One morning she discovers that he is a Mouse Ts 232. 



An owl carries away a girl and marries her. Their son returns to his human grand- 

 father, Naes (Ts 871). 



A princess goes out in a canoe accompanied by many young women. On a sand- 

 bar a mass of foam covers the boat and carries her away to the house of a supernatural 

 being, one of whom marries her Ts 272. 



A princess who is carefully guarded by her parents wishes to marry. One night a 

 shining light comes to her, and a youth appears who wishes to marry her. He is 

 Tsauda, the son of the Sun. On the following night the heavenly youth sends his 

 slave Halus to ask the girl in marriage. She mistakes the slave for the master and 

 marries him. At the same time the slave asks for the girl's lame sister to be given 

 in marriage to Tsauda. At that moment Tsauda himself appears, who takes the lame 

 girl to his father's house, washes her four times, and makes her well and beautiful. 

 Tsauda and his wife then return to his father-in-law Ts 297. 



A chief rejects all the suitors of his daughter. Finally the chief of the Grouses 

 flies down and enters the girl's room, wearing a blanket made of fox skins. She elopes 

 with him, and lives in the town of the Grouses N 229. 



A girl dreams several nights in succession that she is married to a fine-looking man. 

 In reality a Spruce Tree that stands at the end of the village has married her Tl 238. 



A chief does not want his daughter to marry. One day she goes out and sees a man, 

 who asks her to marry him. She agrees, and he takes her to the Frog town M 554. 



A chief's daughter refuses all her suitors, who arrive one by one in their canoes. 

 Finally a person appears in a hair-seal canoe. When he is refused, he causes a flood. 

 The people offer him ten slave-girls, one after another, but he is not satisfied until 

 he is given the chief's daughter ' Sk 151. 



i The rest ot this story deals with the rescue of the young woman from the Skypeople by whom she 

 had been taken. It is quite different in type from the other stories discussed here. 



