Traditional Stories
Raven, Kelye, and Hare
A keyle is chasing a hare. The hare sees a raven.
"Good, handsome one, help me, hide me!" says the hare. Raven helps: he hides the hare, who may be a woman-sorcerer in disguise.
The keyle arrives. "Hey you, raven, didn't you see a hare?" he says.
"No, but I saw somebody flying away!"
"That's him! Help me fly after him!"
Raven takes the keyle up on his back and flies off. The keyle sees the whole world. The Raven drops him.
"Oi, my hands, my legs, my eyes," cried the keyle. And falls headfirst into the snow. Raven and Hare say to the keyle, "You can't run on the earth any more. Who do you want to be?" The keyle wanted to be a stone hitching post.
From then on people have come to him, leaving offerings of beads and food.
"Look," says the Raven to Hare, "now you can tie reindeer to those legs sticking up out of the ground!"
