Reading Notes: The Rattlesnakes Vengeance

Rattlesnake: Source

Reading Notes: 

• Children were playing outside and saw a rattlesnake
• Mother kills snake with a stick
• Father was out hunting and found a large group of rattlesnakes crying
• Rattlesnakes said that his own wife had killed the Yellow Rattlesnake
• They said that they wanted to have vengeance and if the man was truly sorry he must let them even the score
• He was told that the Black rattlesnake would follow him back to his home; he had no choice but to agree
• He went home and his wife was cooking 
• As they had told him, he asked his wife for fresh water in the spring 
• She went outside and was bitten and killed by the rattlesnake
• The rattlesnake teaches him a prayer song that the cherokees use to this day

This story is all about balance and having an eye for an eye. 

Maybe do something in relation to a lawsuit that is settled by arbitration

Have a life lesson in it that makes the reader reread the story? 

Story source: Myths of the Cherokee The Rattlesnakes Vengeance by James Mooney (1900).