Duck In Noose...Care To Read?

http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/1097lore.html ^ | 10-23-02 | my favorite headache

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O'siyo, Welcome to my Lodge, come, come in and have a seat and we will pass the pipe as friends and then I will tell you a story of our Ancestors and thru this story you may learn of our ways and our culture. These Legends are of our life and tell us how to live with all life in this our world, and Id like to share these with you. This month I will tell you of how The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting from the Cherokee People.

Remember this is about more than violence

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Someone is playing a sniper/folklore game...especially with the use of tarot cards.

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ping

[blondee123]

Does anyone think this "quote" was a signal to other cells?

[semaj]

Interesting.

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The Rabit, the Otter, and Duck Hunting. As told by The Warrior based on James Mooney

The Rabbit was known far and wide for his boastful nature. To hear him tell it, he could do what anyone else could do. He was so good at this that he even was able to convince the Otter that he could catch and eat fish just as good as him.

Now time went by, and the Otter meet the Rabbit again. Now it just so happen that the Otter was still a bit miffed about the fish. He had a plan to expose the Rabbit. The Otter looked at the Rabbit, and said to him. "You know, I sometimes eat Duck too!" So off to the river they went and found seven ducks, which they every so quietly were able to sneak up on. "You go first", cried the Rabbit, to which the Otter quickly slid into the water. He quickly was able to drag a duck under and return to the Rabbit unseen.

Now the Rabbit had not just been standing around watching. While the Otter was otherwise occupied, he had been striping bark from near by sapling and making himself a noose. He looked at the Otter when he returned and said, "OK, that is great, watch me!", and off he took into the water. Now the Rabbit did not have anywhere near the ability in water that the Otter had. And it was a struggle for him to reach the ducks un-noticed, but he managed to do so and came up among the remaining six ducks. He quickly fastened his noose around the neck of the closest duck. Startled, the duck began to struggle to get away and finally took of on his wings and dragged the Rabbit out of the water after him. Now it was the Rabbits turn to be startled. And boy was he. He held on to the noose and was taken high into the air. Higher and higher he went. All of a sudden, he lost his grip on the noose and down he fell into the middle of a old hollow Sycamore tree with out a hole in the bottom to get out.

Now the Rabbit was in a fix. He stayed in there so long that he had to start eating his own fur, as rabbits still do to this day when the are starved. Then one day, he heard some children playing and he began to sing in a weak little voice. The song he sang went like this. "Cut a hole and see me, I am the prettiest thing you ever did see"

Soon the children had returned with on of the fathers who cut a who so that the Rabbit could get out. He told them to stand back and see, and out he ran and took his leave.

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Yes. It was the first thing that ran through my mind. Read the story again. We for the last year have worried about codes with Al Qaeda videos...and what did Moose just do? Probably gave out a HUGE signal.

[Howlin]

Why do I have the feeling we're going to be tested on all this when it's over? This is the "hardest" crime I've had to watch in my life. My brain hurts from "figuring."

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Lore for October

[M1911A1]

I thought of that, too, but it seems pretty unlikely. This is a country of internet, cell phones and other communications.

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ping

[Hatteras]

I found that also on a site referring to Cherokee folklore.

[L`enn]

OK see if I got this right, the sniper is the duck, Moose is the rabbit, Moose thinks he had the duck but the duck drops him.

[Mitchell]

Ping.

[Bayou City]

You beat me to this one. The title of the page I was looking at is LORE FOR OCTOBER. Weird!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[MHGinTN]

Time for Jeff Head's suggested citizen patrols to begin forming up!

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As soon as he said it I automatically remembered this tale...