Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 05 : Lights and shadows of the SouthSkinner, Charles M. (Charles Montgomery)
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Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 05 : Lights and shadows of the South
Skinner, Charles M. (Charles Montgomery)
Folklore -- United States
At sunset those who loved each other in life are gathered to their
lodges, and raise songs of joy and thankfulness. Their voices are soft
and musical, their faces are young again and beam with smiles, and there
is no death. It was only the chiefs who heard his story, for, had all the
tribe known it, many who were old and ill and weary would have gone to
the bayou, and leaped in, to find that restful, happy Under Land. Those
who had gone before they sometimes tried to see, when the lake was still
and dappled with pictures of sunset clouds, but the dead never came
back--they kept away from the margin of the water lest they should be
called again to a life of toil and sorrow. And Opaleeta lived for many
years and ruled his tribe with wisdom, yet he shared in few of the
merry-makings of his people, and when, at last, his lodge was ready in
the Under Land, he gave up his life without a sigh.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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