Bear Legend

I read a story called the Bear Legend. The story came from the Cherokee tribe and the legend is that a boy went into the woods every day. The boy stayed there long and longer each day that he would not come back for and he got hairy. His parents got worried about him and asked him to stay but he said “I find plenty to eat there, and it is better than the corn and beans we have in the settlements, and pretty soon I am going into the woods to say all the time.” Then he said “It is better there than here, and you see I am beginning to be different already, so that I can not live here any longer. If you will come with me, there is plenty for all of us and you will never have to work for it; but if you want to come, you must first fast seven days”. The parents told the headman in the clan he told them that we should fallow the boy into the woods after the seven day and they did at the end they were all hairy and the other clan in the Cherokee tribe said that this was not right. The whole clan became bears and they told the other clan that it was all right to kill them and they were fine with it. The story shows that this legend said that it was all right to kill the bears because the other people from other clans were related to them. This gave them freedom to kill the bears.