Native American Legends
Why the Bullfrog's head is striped
A Cherokee Legend
According to one version the Bullfrog was always ridiculing the
great gambler Ûñtsai'yï, (Brass) until the latter
at last got angry and dared the Bullfrog to play the gatayû'stï
(wheel-and-stick) game with him.
Whichever lost was to be scratched on his forehead. Brass won,
as he always did, and the yellow stripes on the Bullfrog's head
show where the gambler's fingers scratched him.
Another story is that the Bullfrog had a conjurer to paint his
head with yellow stripes (brass) to make him appear more handsome
to a pretty woman he was courting.
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