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The Legend Of Sootface

Published on Dec 07, 2015

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The Legend Of Sootface

An Ojibwa legend  Written by Tobias Burgess  

One day in the middle of a very old birch forest, 3 children were born. Unfortunately, the mother died. So in turn, the father had to take care of the three children by himself.

The three children grew up quickly, but the 2 oldest sisters were lazy, and made their other kinder sister do all the work. Because of this, she also did all the jobs by the fire, and got her hair singed by the fire and was always clouded by soot so she was nicknamed SootFace

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One day a Hunter who had the power to turn himself invisible, wanted a wife.So he asked his sister, to ask all the girls in the surrounding village what his bow was made out of,only the most kind and honest girl would actually see the bow.

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All the girls in the village dressed in their best cloths and moccasins, went to the hunters hut, and tried to guess what the bow was made out of. But each time that the Hunters sister asked "what is his bow made out of"every girl failed.

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Soon after her sisters went (and failed) Soot Face decided to try her luck at seeing the hunter.But her sisters would not let her borrow any of their cloths, so Soot Face went into the forest and made herself a birch bark dress and put flowers in her hair.

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After returning to the village, all the villagers laughed at Soot Face. But determined to win the love of the hunter, continued onto the hunters hut.

When soot face got to the hunters hut, the hunters Sister asks her the same question "what is the hunters bow made out of" and soot face replied ''his strings are rainbows and the bow itself is the milky way" upon hearing this the hunter appeared.

The Hunter instantly made Soot face hair long, and all the ash out of her hair and face instantly vanished,also he instantly mended all of her scars that she had got from the fire.

Afterwards Soot Face became the Hunters Wife and The two mean Sisters had to do all the chores (serves them right)And Soot Face lived happily ever after.

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