Bitten
These men, who were friendly spirits, said that the only way the people could save themselves was to kill the sun.
The Little Men made medicine to change two of the humans into snakes, the spreading adder and copperhead, who could hide near the daughter's door and bite the old sun. The Snakes went up to the sky and lay in wait until the sun arrived for dinner. But when the spreading adder was about to spring, her bright light blinded him, and he could only spit out yellow slime, as he does to this day when he tries to bite. The sun called him a nasty thing and went into the house, and the copperhead was so discouraged that he crawled off without trying to do anything. The people still dying
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