#Folklore ##传奇故事 #
Kisch is an Eskimo boy who lives on the shores of the Arctic Sea. The Arctic is cold, especially in winter, and the sun is not seen at all. There are almost half a year of absence of daylight each year. At the beginning of the next year, a new sun will rise into the sky, never setting from morning to night, bringing light and warmth to this land. Thus the Eskimos knew their age by counting a few suns he had seen.
Keith had seen thirteen suns. His father had tragically died while hunting, and he was now dependent on his mother, Ikiga. Kishi was too young to go out hunting. Mother and son lived off animal meat from other hunters, which was often not fresh and sometimes full of bones.
One night, in the village chief's crested hut, a village council was being held, and Kishi was present—for there were no more men in his family than him. Among the people who attended the meeting, Ji Ji was the youngest, and everyone did not pay attention to this little hairy child. But Kishe was engrossed, listening carefully to what everyone had to say. After everyone had finished their opinions, Kishi opened his mouth and said, "As you all know, my father Pock was a top hunter. He got the most animal meat every time he hunted, but he always shared it evenly with everyone. Now that he is dead, you should also divide the meat equally between mother and son! But you didn't do that, and what we got was meat that others didn't want, smelly and hard, and full of bones. ”
The hunters were astonished. No one expected a little furry child to dare to speak so boldly at the meeting and accuse them like an adult.
"Blow this kid away!"
"He can't talk like this to someone who compares him to his older!" "Hmm, his milk stinks not yet!"
"Can a furry child, who has never hunted, teach us what to do?" Hunter Masuk asked,
After Kishi and the noise calmed down, he said angrily and strongly, "You all listen." For example, you all have wives, so naturally you have to speak for them. And I only have a mother, and I have to say a few words for her. Since you are not willing to give us meat, I will go hunting like all of you, and like my father, I will hunt and distribute meat fairly. Wait and see, I'm not going to beg you for meat anymore and everyone laughed.
The next morning, the people were surprised to see Kishi carrying a bow and arrow, carrying his father's large spear and gun, and embarked on a hunting expedition, and did not return home that day, nor the next day. On the third day, there was a strong wind outside, and there was still no shadow of Kishi. Everyone thought he was finished, and his mother smeared charred seal oil on her face in grief. The women blamed the man for not letting the child go out hunting alone, and there was a lot of noise and discussion in the village. Although the adult men were rebuked by their conscience, no one said a word, and everyone just prepared sleds and dogs, hoping to find Kishi's body.
Early the next morning, just as the men were about to set out to find the corpse, Kishi returned to the village with a lot of animal meat, and said indifferently to the hunters who had ridiculed him: "Go, you big men, follow my footprints, you will certainly find the mother bear and the two bear cubs that I killed, and go and get the rest of the meat back, so that everyone can eat enough." ”
The men were stunned, the women were elated, and the atmosphere was extremely warm. Kishi's mother was particularly pleased, laughing and saying, "Ah, son, you are now a man, and I am so proud of you!" ”
"Come on, Ijija, let's go into the house and eat." Kishi pretended to be an adult and said, "After eating, I still have to take a break, I'm so tired." He said and walked into his own dome hut.
After Kishi entered the house, the men began to talk again, "I don't believe it, one hunter said, "How can a child kill a big bear alone?" But his wife pointed to the large pile of bear meat that Kishi had brought back and retorted, "So where did this meat come from?" Why are you big men still waiting? Didn't Kishi say that there was still a lot of meat there, and told you to go and get it back? ”
The men finally reluctantly agreed to go get the remaining bear meat. "Maybe not too much meat." One man shrugged and muttered in disbelief. Several men set off on a dog sleigh that had been intended to carry Kishi's body, but when the sled returned, it was filled with bear meat—Kishi not only killed a female bear and two bear cubs, but also cut the bear meat into many pieces like an experienced adult hunter.
This is the result of Bashi's first hunting. Since then, Kishi has often gone out hunting alone and never returned empty-handed. As long as Kishi continued to hunt, there would be no shortage of meat in the village, and many people admitted that Kishi was a good hunter like his father, and some even wanted to choose him to succeed the village chief. However, despite this, there are still some people who doubt the ability of Kishi. "Why does he always go out hunting alone?" The men asked, "He doesn't have a hound with him either." He was sure to use some magic and summoned the youkai to help him hunt. "In short, I doubt that he will pretend to be a ghost." In order to find out the truth, the village council held a meeting and discussed until the middle of the night, and finally made a decision: send someone to quietly track and monitor Kishi's actions to see what kind of fame he was doing outside. Five days later, the surveillance men returned.
"We quietly followed Kishi according to the instructions of the village council," the surveillance men began to report to the village council what they had seen, "and he did not notice us." On the evening of the first day, he ran to a big bear and shouted at it, causing the bear to be angry. I saw the bear stand upright, stretching out his front paws while howling while chasing Kishi, but he was not afraid at all, and threw small balls on the ground as he ran... The bear stopped to sniff and eat, then chased after it again. Kishi ran while dropping more balls. The bear also chased after it, while eating all the dumplings on the ground... It didn't take long for the bear to suddenly stop chasing. I saw it stand upright, howling in pain, churning and rolling, shaking its head, and tugging at its own fur with its paws—a sight I've never seen before! Kishi also stood still, patiently observing... The bear tossed and turned for a whole day, getting weaker and weaker. By dusk on the third day, I was exhausted and unable to move. Kishi then walked up to him and stabbed the bear to death with his father's spear. The people present were silent, and they were all fascinated.
"And finally? Finally? Someone hurriedly asked. The surveillance man replied, "After the bear was killed, we left." ”
A man who had doubted Kishi in the past stubbornly said, "This must be an apparition of the devil." ”
"Then I don't know," replied the surveillance man unhappily, "I only report what I have seen truthfully." ”
The village council discussed for half a day, but to no avail. In the end, he had to send someone to ask Kishi to testify. But Kishi said to the person who wrote back: "I just came back, tired and hungry. If the village council had to see me, ask them all to come to my hut and talk. ”
All the members of the village council did indeed come. "Kishi," the village chief said solemnly, "Beam and Bowen followed you and saw you slaughter a bear. We wanted to find out how you did it. Have you ever played with witchcraft? Are there any monsters that do you any favors? ”
Kishi smiled slightly and replied, "No, there are no yokai to help me, and I don't have any magic." I use the 'mind technique', which anyone can use. ”
The room was silent for a while, and the members of the village council were wide-eyed and unable to speak for half a day. Kishi was left to eat by himself. In the end, the village chief had to harden his scalp and ask in a trembling voice, "Are you willing to teach us the 'mind technique', Kishi?" ”
Kishi smiled again, picked up a whale whisker and said, "This is very simple, please look at me-" Then he bent the thin whisker into a circle, and suddenly released his hand again, and the whale whisker "jumped" and bounced straight. "Now you see it, don't you?" The baleen is sharp at both ends, first bending it in a circle—as I demonstrated earlier—and then wrapping it in a piece of seal meat and freezing it in the snow. When the bear swallows the piece of meat containing the baleen into the stomach, the meat is digested in the bear's stomach, and the baleen is straightened. At this point, its sharp ends will pierce the bear's stomach, making the bear in excruciating pain and struggling desperately. At that point, it would be effortless to kill the bear! ”
The men finally understood the meaning of "heart technique" at this time, and a smile of admiration appeared on their faces.
In this way, Kishe taught the people in the village to hunt with wisdom. Everyone thanked Kishi for building a large domed house, and later elected him as the village chief. After Becoming the village chief, Kishi treated anyone warmly and fairly, and the villagers lived better and better, never lacking meat. Until his death, he was remembered fondly because he was a very, very good hunter—he used "mind magic" instead of magic.
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