I think I want to do a psych hospital angle for my story this week, make the protagonist of the story actually be a psych patient that believes he is doing what the stories are saying he did. I am gonna write notes about how these stories can be integrated into that idea.
Two Fast Runners
I could make two patients be the deer and the antelope racing through the cafeteria and when the bet their dewclaws, it could be their hospital bracelets through the playground.
The Wolf Man
This story was sort of confusing. I dont think I would be able to apply it to the psych ward
Kut-O-Yis, The Blood Boy
This would be cool to start my story-- the patient telling of how he was born and where he delusions began. Maybe in a group therapy session, those would be cool notes
Next he will tell the group of how he helped his old father defeat his brother-in-law and saved him from starving to death.
He had decided to go on a journey after he knew that his parents were safe. There is a big bear near by that takes all the good food from the village for himself and his wife and children. When the bears came to take the meat, he slays all of them and saves the old woman.
The journey continues. Now a snake takes all of the good food. He reacts the same way and the old woman goes to live in the snake lodge.
Next he goes to find the woman who wrestles and kills men. He hurriedly defeats her with her own sharp stones and moves on. He sees a woman who tricks men to trip and fall over a cliff to their death. But he was much too clever for her and cuts the rope before she can trick him and she falls into the lake to be eaten up by fish.
Soon he finds a man-eater parading as a chief and goes to his lodge. He allows the man-eater to kill him and cook his bones. When a child sees the bones after he has eaten all of the meat, she asks for them and the man-eater obliges not realizing that Kut-O-Yis had made an arrangement earlier. Soon Kut-O-Yis arises from his own bones and destroys the man-eater.
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