Native American Legends
The Bride from the South
A Cherokee Legend
The North went traveling, and after going far and meeting many
different tribes he finally fell in love with the daughter of the
South and wanted to marry her.
The girl was willing, but her parents objected and said, "Ever
since you came the weather has been cold, and if you stay here we
may all freeze to death."
The North pleaded hard, and said that if they would let him have
their daughter he would take her back to his own country, so at
last they consented. They were married and he took his bride to
his own country, and when she arrived there she found the people
all living in ice houses.
The next day, when the sun rose, the houses began to leak, and
as it climbed higher they began to melt, and it grew warmer and
warmer, until finally the people came to the young husband and told
him he must send his wife home again, or the weather would get so
warm that the whole settlement would be melted.
He loved his wife and so held out as long as he could, but as the
sun grew hotter the people were more urgent, and at last he had
to send her home to her parents.
The people said that as she had been born in the South, and nourished
all her life upon food that grew in the same climate, her whole
nature was warm and unfit for the North.
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