The+Spirit-Wife

The Spirit Wife  Naomi J.

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In a place far away was a man. This man was upset. He was upset because his young beautiful wife has died and now lives in the Valley of the Dead. The man took an eagle’s feather and colored it with a beautiful red. The man waited till the sun has disappeared into the dark clouds and waited for the moon to rise and shine bright in the sky. When this has happened the man went to his wife’s grave and waited for his wife’s spirit to rise from the grave beneath him. When she had rose he looked at her face and was surprised to find not sadness and frustration but joy and happiness in her face. The spirit wife had said to him,” Do not fear that I am gone. I have only left this life to start a new one” The spirit wife spoke with softness in her voice and said, "The eagle’s feather that you have threaded in my hair is visible in day light. Therefore if you wish to follow me than follow the eagle’s feather." The sun began to rise beneath the sky. The light was brighter and brighter by the minute. Then each minute gave a more distant view of the spirit wife. The last thing that was left of the spirit wife was the eagle’s feather. The feather started to move smoothly through the thin air. The man followed it every corner and every mountain it went over. The man has followed the eagle’s feather for many days. After many days the eagle feather came upon a great canyon. The eagle feather went over the canyon with no problem at all. The man couldn’t get over the canyon for he couldn’t fly or walk on air like the spirit wife. Then a squirrel comes along and says,” I can help you get over this great canyon”. The man wondered how, but he let the squirrel help him. The squirrel got a seed and placed it in a crack in the canyon. The squirrel got on the seed and danced while dancing the squirrel said,” Hush Hush Hoo Hee” After singing and dancing over and over again a sprout grew across the canyon, and with that the man was able to rejoin with his spirit wife. The man and the spirit wife walked and walked. They came upon a lake and the spirit wife went deep down the lake to the deepest part. The man was unable and didn’t know what to do. Then an old wise owl came along willing to help the young man if the man would do him a favor. The favor that he asked of him was to be patient while the owl explained the do’s and don’ts of the medicine he was about ot recieve. The owl blew a magic medicine onto the man’s face which caused him to go into a deep sleep. The owl took the man and flew him under some trees. Then strange owls came down to the lake wear the valley of the dead was located and went down and brought the spirit wife to the surface of the water and to the man whom was sleeping under the tree. She too had fallen into a deep sleep when they had both awaken they realized that there love was stronger than any other. The two travelled for 4 days and on the 4th day reached the Thunder Mountain. At Thunder Mountain there was a river that is near a town called Salt Town. The wife looked at her husband with tired eyes and said,” I am tired. I promise that when I awake we will move on with our journey”. When the wife awoke she had realized that her husband loved her, but didn’t love her enough to wait. With that she said,” I shall die again.” With those final words her body disappeared into thin air. The owl hooted from a high branch, “It’s a shame that you couldn’t wait now your love is gone forever. Now there shall be no journey to the bottom of the lake. No journey over the canyon. There shall be no crying.======

=The Spirit - Wife= =By Emily Walker=

There was a young married man whose wife was dead an he was feeling very lonely. He went to his wife's grave and got a red bundle of feathers. He waited till night until she appeared and asked her to tie the red bundle to her hair. In the morning, He couldn't see her, but he could see the red feathers and they started on their way to the spirit realm. He went for days and he slept during the night, and walked the whole day. They then came to a chasm, that he couldn't see the bottom of. He saw the bundle walk straight over the gorge and get safely to the other side. He was about to step off when a squirrel yelled, HEY!!! If you go off that cliff you will fall!!! Here let me help!!! Said the squirrel. He got one of the wet seeds from his mouth and planted it in the crack in the wall. He said GROW GROW!!! And the stalk grew until it expanded so much that the man could walk safely over to the other side, Where his wife led him to a lake and went under. He cried that night because he could not go with her. An owl man blew some powder on him and he fell asleep. The owl man carried him to an ant hill and whispered in his ear to wait and not touch her until he took her home. He then flew to the lake and grabbed the man's wife, and set her down next to him. They then got up and she was human again, but he had remembered the owl's words and didn’t touch her, but when she laid down to take a nap, he couldn’t resist and a touched her ankle. She faded away, and he then died of sadness in the same place he had messed up that very night.