Stories and Poems for Northeastern Native Tribal Families: From A Circle Tied to Mother Earth

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Crow Challenges Hobomook LONG AGO, IT WAS THIS WAY. The Trickster, known to the Nipmuc people as Hobomook, decided he was going to have some fun. He was going to play some cruel jokes on the Nipmucs during the Summer Harvest. The people were gathering nuts, berries, and other goods. They filled their baskets. They had been laboring hard all day. When the Nipmucs were not looking, Hobomook touched their baskets of goods as he chanted a curse and transformed all the delicious food into small hard stones. He then ran, hid behind a tree, and peeked out from the side. When the Nipmucs realized what had happened, they were very upset. All of their hard work had been for nothing. Hobomook sat behind the tree, laughing so hard that his belly jiggled. Back at the village, a woman was cooking a big pot of delicious rabbit stew. When she went inside, Hobomook touched the pot then ran off. When the family came out to eat, they were shocked and disgusted. Hobomook had changed the wonderful stew into a kettle of boiling mud. Hobomook was now rolling around on the ground, laughing and kicking his feet together. Not far from the village there were large cornfields. There were several women of all ages, gathering corn, singing songs, and filling the large baskets full of ripe and scrumptious corn. After all the work was done, the ladies decided to go get something to drink. Hobomook went up and down the rows, dancing and smiling, as he touched each basket of corn. He turned every sweet and tender ear of corn into a pile of fish bones. When the women returned, they were horrified and went back to the village with their baskets full of fish skeletons. A meeting was called by the Sachem. The people gathered at the Long House. The Nipmucs were bitter, for now they knew this was the handiwork of Hobomook and they wanted to get him. However, being a Trickster, he could be very dangerous to tangle with. They asked the Pau Wau, who is today known as the Medicine Man, what should be done. While they were in their meeting Konkontu, the Crow, was making his daily trip to the cornfield. The Nipmucs always shared corn with Crow because he is the one who brought it to them in the first place. When Crow reached the cornfield, he shuddered. He saw that all the tasty corn was gone. There were just rows and rows of fish bones. 31
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