Gouge. Creek Folktales

Today's free book is Totkv Mocvse / New Fire: Creek Folktales by Earnest Gouge, edited and translated by Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin, and Juanita McGirt. Here is a tribute to Margaret Mauldin, founder of the Creek language program at the University of Oklahoma.

You will find the contents of the book online at the William and Mary: Linguistics website. You can listen to the Creek recordings there too!

1. The three brothers and the spotted horse

2. The hunter and his dogs

3. Tug of war between the tie-snakes, tar baby

4. The hunters’ wives

5. The stork father

6. Rabbit steals fire

7. Turtle is beaten by three mothers

8. Rabbit rides Wolf

9. Turtle races Wolf

10. The young man who turned into a snake

11. Man defeats a giant lizard

12. Man challenges a racing snake

13. Rabbit traps Lion on the other side of the ocean

14. Rabbit seeks wisdom from God

15. Two boys become thunder

16. Tiger helps man defeat a giant lizard

17. Rabbit tries to straighten river beds

18. Twisted Horn steals man’s heart

19. Old dog saves master from Long Claws

20. Doe killed by hunter, becomes his wife

21. Buzzard doctors Rabbit

22. Cow wants a knife

23. Hunter captured by eagle

24. Whistling man helps hunter

25. Hunter taken to deer cave

26. Man races a lizard

27. Turtle tries to look up women’s dresses

28. Wolf wants to become spotted

29. Girl abducted by lion