Reading Notes: SW/CA How Bluebird and Coyote Got Their Colors
How Bluebird and Coyote Got Their Colors
A long time ago, the bluebird was a hideous color. Bluebird knew of a lake where no river river flow in or out and he bathed in this lake four times every morning for four mornings. Every morning while he bathed he sang the same song:
There's a blue water.
It lies there.
I went in.
I am all blue.
On the fourth morning, bluebird shed all his feathers and cam out of the lake in his skin. The next morning, he came out of the lake and he was covered with blue feathers.
Coyote had been watching bluebird the whole time. He wanted to get in and eat the bluebird but he had fear of the water. On the last morning, Coyote said, " How is it that you lost your ugly color, and now you are blue and beautiful? You are more beautiful than anything in the skies. I want to be blue too." Coyote at this time was green.
" I only went four times for four mornings," Bluebird told him.
Then Coyote was proud of his blue color. He was so proud that he looked around to every side as he walked to see if everyone noticed and looked at how beautiful and blue he was. He also looked to see if his shadow was also blue. Coyote was too distracted trying to notice if anyone was looking at him that he was not watching the trail. He ran into a stump so hard he tripped on and he was covered in dust all over. That is why today coyotes are the color of dirt.
Bibliography : This story is part of the Southwestern and California Legends unit. Story source: Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912).
A long time ago, the bluebird was a hideous color. Bluebird knew of a lake where no river river flow in or out and he bathed in this lake four times every morning for four mornings. Every morning while he bathed he sang the same song:
There's a blue water.
It lies there.
I went in.
I am all blue.
On the fourth morning, bluebird shed all his feathers and cam out of the lake in his skin. The next morning, he came out of the lake and he was covered with blue feathers.
Coyote had been watching bluebird the whole time. He wanted to get in and eat the bluebird but he had fear of the water. On the last morning, Coyote said, " How is it that you lost your ugly color, and now you are blue and beautiful? You are more beautiful than anything in the skies. I want to be blue too." Coyote at this time was green.
" I only went four times for four mornings," Bluebird told him.
Then Coyote was proud of his blue color. He was so proud that he looked around to every side as he walked to see if everyone noticed and looked at how beautiful and blue he was. He also looked to see if his shadow was also blue. Coyote was too distracted trying to notice if anyone was looking at him that he was not watching the trail. He ran into a stump so hard he tripped on and he was covered in dust all over. That is why today coyotes are the color of dirt.
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Bibliography : This story is part of the Southwestern and California Legends unit. Story source: Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912).
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