WOO - Glooskap turns men into rattlesnakes

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There was a certain tribe. Its people were rowdy and lecherous. Whatever they wanted to do, they did. They were disrespectful. They thought about nothing but copulating and gorging themselves with food. Glooskap told those people: "A great flood is coming." They said: "We do not care." He told them: "The water will be so high it will go way above your heads." They said: "We are good swimmers." "The flood will sweep you away," Glooskap told them. They said: "We like to take baths." Glooskap told them: "This will be a really tremendous flood."

They said: "We don't mind."

Glooskap told them: "Be good and pray!"

They said: "Don't bother us. Go away!"

These people decided to have a big feast of eating, singing, and dancing. They made rattles out of turtle shells filled with pebbles. They danced in rhythm with their rattles. It began to rain, but these people kept dancing. It thundered, but still they danced. Lightening struck the ground around them. They only laughed and kept dancing.

Glooskap became angry. He did not drown them in the flood. He turned them into rattlesnakes. So now, when the snakes hear somebody coming, they rise up and lift their heads, while their bodies sway as if in a dance. And they shake their rattles as they did when they were still human beings.

"I like this kind of music", said Glooskap.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001


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