Ku Wikit

Ku Wikit

Native Indian Folk Tales (Yaqui Tribe)

A long time ago,among arasında the Yaquis, there lived a bird who was poor. He was so poor, in fact, that he wore the shabbiest eski püskü,drabbest sönük coat manto of feathers tüy. Now, being a vain değersiz bird, he was ashamed utanmış to show himself before anyone, so he kept to himself and knew no one. But, he used to look at the other birds, each with colorful feathers, and he was very jealous of them.

One day he thought of something. He began to pluck yolmak out his feathers,one by one birer birer,painful eziyetli though it was. At last there he stood, a poor,naked çıplak little bird, suffering from the cold weather.Owl baykuş was passing by, and Ku Wikit called to him, "My brotherdost, please to do me a favoriyilik, and I will help you as long as I live. Help me to dress myself by lendingödünç vermeme a few feathers of yours, even if only part of my body is coveredörtmek. I am sufferingacı çekmekfrom the cold."

"Well," the owl answered him, "Worry no more about your coat of feathers. I will lend you some, and I shall ask also that the other birds lend you one feather apieceadam başına. Thus you may clothekaplamak.your entirebütünbody." " Graciasthank you(ing.), teşekkürler, you are good," said Ku Wikit to the Owl. "And when I grow many more feathers, I shall returndönmeka feather to each one who has lent me one."

That is how the Owl sent a messenger all around to the birds, asking them to please come to a council meclis early the next morning. There was much talk, and then all wanted to see Ku Wikit. At their request istek, Ku Wikit presented ortaya koymak himself, but with much shame at his nakedness.

Upon üzerine seeing him, everyone felt very sorry for him. And everyone gave him one feather, until his coat of feathers was complete.

After giving them thanks, Ku Wikit left to take a look at himself in a spring kaynak filled with crystal-clear water. Here is where many birds with beautiful plumage tüyler (kuş) often came to visit and admire hayran olmak themselves. When Ku Wikit arrived, all surrounded çevirmek him in admiration,exclaiming hayretini ifade etmek at his beautiful, unusual plumage. He had great splashes serpme of colors - yellow, red, blue - the colors of the rainbow gökkuşağı, it looked like. No one recognized tanımak him as the naked, poor bird. They now called him the bird of a thousand colors.

Ku Wikit rushed atılmak to look at himself, and they were right - he was more beautiful than any other! Of course, this didn't help his vanity değersizlik any. In fact, he became so conceited kibirli,constantly devamlı talking and talking about his looks görünüş, and admiring himself, that no one could stand him and didn't want to be near him. And to this day, Ku Wikit, the parrot papağan, is a non-stop sürekli talker that people want to shut up. And he's still admiring his coat of a thousand colors.