Therefore, when a tiny frog cries out now, people say that some one is on the point of running after a deer.
THE FRIGHTENER OF HUNTERS
Choctaw (Bayou Lacomb)
KASHEHOTAPALO is the frightener of hunters. His head is small and dried up, like an old man’s. His legs and feet are like those of a deer. He lives in low, swampy places, far away from men.
If the hunters come near him, when they are chasing a deer, he slips up behind them and calls loudly. Thus he frightens them away. His voice is like that of a woman. His name means “the woman call.”
THE HUNTER AND THE ALLIGATOR
Choctaw (Bayou Lacomb)
ALL the hunters in a village killed many deer one winter, except one man. This one saw many deer. Sometimes he drew his bow and shot at them; yet they escaped.