This section is a little more coherent, but there IS a story where a coyote's poop talks to him. I'm not sure why or how, but it did...yup, that happened :)
Supernatural Person in the Lake
In this story a woman gave her son the gift of becoming a medicine man. He killed some antelopes for her and then she wanted her gift back. Of course, he said no and told her he had given it to the 'supernatural' one, so she cursed him. He left and went to his own country and lived at the bottom of a lake. People tried to find him but couldn't. Two years later, the people were on their way to war. They stopped by the body of water where the son was and he started talking to them and recognized them as his people. He gave them a buffalo and asked them to smoke a pipe with him. He tells them when to attack and how to get the horses they want, he only asks for the black one with a white spot. They get the horses and let go of the black one by the water and the horse went into the lake.
Photo by thes26800. Source: Pixabay.
This story actually made me sad a little.
Coyote saw a deer with her fawns and wanted to know how she got them spotted. She told him that they were born that way. He didn't believe her and kept bothering her, so she finally told him that she digs a hole, puts a pile of cedar in front of it and then puts her children in the hole, lights the cedar, and the sparks are what makes their spots. He did this to his children, but they started crying. He didn't hear them(?) and left them there until the fire burned down. When he went to get them out, he took their pulled back lips as joy at being "so beautifully spotted". When he went to pull them out of the hole, one of their arms fell off. Coyote was so mad that he set the willows where the deers were on fire, but the deer had already left.
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