{"id":270,"date":"2011-03-10T22:34:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T22:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=270"},"modified":"2015-03-26T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:04:48","slug":"storytelling-at-the-school-for-the-blind-part-1-tsonokwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/storytelling-at-the-school-for-the-blind-part-1-tsonokwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytelling at the School for the Blind: Part 1: Tsonokwa"},"content":{"rendered":"

By C. R. Manley<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I tell a gentler version of the Kwakiutl Tsonokwa myth.
\nThe hairy bogeyman who lives in the forest and eats
\nnoisy children. Broad-Shouldered-Woman who says
\n“Come into my house, child. I have something for you here”
\nor who straps on her clam basket and carries the children home.<\/p>\n

But before roasting them, Tsonokwa becomes entranced
\nby the children’s flat faces, a girl’s shaved eyebrows,
\nears pierced for earrings. Tsonokwa wants these things.
\nThe children always outwit the monster, assuring it
\nthey can change its appearance, then smashing its head
\nwith stones, pushing it into the fire, pounding sticks<\/p>\n

through its eyes or ears. Tsonokwa says “O!”
\nand dies. The children run back to their village,
\nfull of their news.<\/p>\n

Tsonokwa seems almost to wish for its own death,
\nit finds it so easily. In the human children. That soft,
\nsweet food it carried-off, kicking under its arms,
\nto a cedar hut in the wet, dark woods.<\/p>\n

But in the story I tell, the children instruct Tsonokwa
\nto bring two flat stones, to rest its head on one
\nand to place the other over its face. Tsonokwa does this
\nand lies still. Lies patient and still for weeks.
\nAnd eventually the children forget to be careful, forget
\nwhat breathes there in the trees, hungry
\nand dreaming of them.<\/p>\n

Storytelling<\/strong> part 1, was published in a different form in Paragraph<\/em>, no. 13, 1994<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By C. R. Manley I tell a gentler version of the Kwakiutl Tsonokwa myth. The hairy bogeyman who lives in the forest and eats noisy children. Broad-Shouldered-Woman who says “Come into my house, child. I have something for you here” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-edition","category-previous-editions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}