CHARACTERS
| Dûnwa | Stone Woman |
| Tcoóks | Crane |
| Wŏn | Elk |
An old woman and her granddaughter lived together. When the girl was grown, the grandmother urged her to get a husband, but she didn’t want one. The old woman teased till the girl got mad, struck her with a club, killed her, and said: “Now the crows can eat you!”
The girl took a basket on her back and started off. The body of the old woman called out: “You won’t get there!”
The girl saw a crow carrying off a piece of her grandmother. She felt sorry; she thought: “She used to be my grandmother; now black crows are eating her.”
When the girl got near the place she wanted to go to, the ground grew soft and she sank in it; the old woman made it so.
Wŏn, the husband of Dûnwa, was on the top of a high mountain. He saw the girl, and said: “She was coming fast; now she is standing still. I will go and see what the trouble is.” He found that the ground had dried up and fastened the girl’s legs down. He thought, “What shall I do to help her?” That minute there was a noise like a heavy clap of thunder. Wŏn said to the girl: “That is my wife. She is mad, but I am going to get you out of the ground.”
He ran to a pile of bones that he had on the mountain, took a leg bone out of the pile, went back and rubbed the girl’s legs with the bone; right away the dirt loosened, and she pulled her legs out.
Wŏn said: “Now you are my wife. I will have two wives. Dûnwa won’t care. You must be careful what you think. If [[241]]you talk right out Dûnwa won’t know what you say, but what you think she will know. She is a great eater; she eats three deer at a time. I am afraid of her. In the daytime she is like a rock with big eyes, but at night she is a nice-looking woman.”
Dûnwa knew that her husband and the girl were coming; she kept striking rocks and making a terrible noise. When they went into the house, the man thought: “This girl is my wife.”