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Dogodek v Indijanskem parku
036 An Event in Indian Park
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land · Charles M. SkinnerO besedilu
Dogodek v Indijanskem parku
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- Myths and Legends of Our Own Land
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- Charles M. Skinner
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O izvirniku
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land
Obsežna zgodovinska zbirka ameriških legend, ki jih je Skinner zbral in avtorsko rekonstruiral. Bralni jezik je Slovenščina, izvirnik pa prihaja iz vira Myths and Legends of Our Own Land v jeziku English.
Besedilo
Dogodek v Indijanskem parku
V letih, ko so bili Saranaci razdeljeni, je Howling Wind, eden mladeničev iz Indian Carryja, zagledal dekle iz rodu ob jezeru Tupper Lake in se zaljubil vanjo. Kmalu je našel način, da ji je razkril svojo naklonjenost, in pogosto sta se srečevala v gozdu in na obrežju. Drznil si jo je s čolnom popeljati po mirnejših zalivih, nekega mesečnega večera pa jo je odpeljal k Hudičevi skali, imenovani tudi Hudičeva prižnica, in ji povedal zgodbo o tem kraju. Po njej naj bi se hudič na hlodih, veslajoč z repom, pripeljal do te skale in okoli sebe zbral veliko rib in divjadi, češ da jim bo pridigal; namesto tega krepostnega opravila pa je planil nanje in požrl vse, kar mu je prišlo v kremplje.
Kakor se je v zgodovini Indijancev tako pogosto dogajalo, je vrnitev zaljubljencev opazil zavrnjeni tekmec, ki je pohitel nazaj v tabor in si priskrbel pomoč šestih mož, da bi srečnejšega snubca prijeli, brž ko bi stopil na breg. Po spopadu so ga ujeli in Howling Winda odvlekli v poglavarjev šotor, kjer naj bi mu izrekli sodbo. Obsodili so ga na smrt, s pretanjeno krutostjo, redko celo med Indijanci, pa so dekletu ukazali, naj sodbo izvrši. Zaman je prosila in jokala. V roke so ji potisnili sekiro in ji ukazali, naj pokonča ujetnika. Prijela je orožje; obraz ji je otrdel in solze so se ji posušile na licih; njen ljubi, privezan k drevesu, jo je začudeno gledal; njegov tekmec pa je vse skupaj opazoval skoraj z naslado. Dekle je počasi prečkalo čistino in stopilo k svojemu ljubemu. Dvignila je tomahavk in z enim zamahom presekala jermene, s katerimi je bil privezan, nato pa kakor blisk planila na njegovega tekmeca, ki je skočil naprej, da bi ji to preprečil, in mu z enim samim udarcem razklala lobanjo. Zaljubljenca sta zbežala, kakor lahko bežijo le tisti, ki jim gre za življenje. Na svojo srečo sta srečala skupino iz Carryja, ki je prihajala rešit Howling Winda iz nevarnosti, v katero ga je spravilo njegovo dvorjenje. Govorilo se je celo, da je ta skupina vstopila v vas in z noži in puščicami, uperjenimi v poglavarjeve prsi, izsilila njegovo zdaj že odvečno privolitev v zvezo ubežnikov. Zaljubljenca sta varno prispela v Carry in skupaj živela dolgo in srečno življenje.
Izvirnik
036 An Event in Indian Park
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It was during the years when the Saranacs were divided that Howling Wind, one of the young men of Indian Carry, saw and fell in love with a girl of the family on Tupper Lake. He quickly found a way to tell his liking, and the couple met often in the woods and on the shore. He made bold to row her around the quieter bays, and one moonlight evening he took her to Devil's Rock, or Devil's Pulpit, where he told her the story of the place. This was to the effect that the fiend had paddled, on timbers, by means of his tail, to that rock, and had assembled fish and game about him in large numbers by telling them that he was going to preach to them, instead of which moral procedure he pounced upon and ate all that were within his grasp.
As so often happened in Indian history, the return of these lovers was seen by a disappointed rival, who had hurried back to camp and secured the aid of half a dozen men to arrest the favored one as soon as he should land. The capture was made after a struggle, and Howling Wind was dragged to the chief's tent for sentence. That sentence was death, and with a refinement of cruelty that was rare even among the Indians, the girl was ordered to execute it. She begged and wept to no avail. An axe was put into her hands, and she was ordered to despatch the prisoner. She took the weapon; her face grew stern and the tears dried on her cheeks; her lover, bound to a tree, gazed at her in amazement; his rival watched, almost in glee. Slowly the girl crossed the open space to her lover. She raised the tomahawk and at a blow severed the thongs that held him, then, like a flash, she leaped upon his rival, who had sprung forward to interfere, and clove his skull with a single stroke. The lovers fled as only those can fly who run for life. Happily for them, they met a party from the Carry coming to rescue Howling Wind from the danger to which his courtship had exposed him, and it was even said that this party entered the village and by presenting knives and arrows at the breast of the chief obtained his now superfluous consent to the union of the fugitives. The pair reached the Carry in safety and lived a long and happy life together.
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