The second half of this unit was just as good as the first. I really like that a lot of these stories were about animals and told different tales about animals' relationships with each other, as well as with humans.
One of my favorite stories was "The Owl Gets Married". A mother always told her child that she would only allow her to marry a man who was a good hunter and could provide well for her. A man came along and claimed to be a great hunter, so her mother advised her to allow him to court her and gave the two of them permission to live together. The husband would always claim to be out hunting, and would be gone the whole day, but would only return with a small amount of food. After seeing him return with very little food, the mother got very suspicious and had her daughter follow him. The daughter followed him to where he would go 'hunt" and found that he was actually an owl. She returned to her mother with the new information, and the girl confronted the owl. She drove him out of their house and the owl withered away because he had lost his love.
I also really liked the story "The Bullfrog Lover". A man really liked a woman, but her mother didn't like him at all and didn't want him courting her daughter. He hid in the bushes near the water and made a trumpet, and made himself sound like a bullfrog. At first, the woman was very frightened, and told her parents what had happened. The family believed that this was a sign to not tell the daughter what to do in her personal life anymore and the mother let her be with the young man. In the second part of the story, a girl would hear a bullfrog singing, but didn't realize the man that she was going to marry was a tadpole, until one night the fire revealed his tadpole mouth.
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