Bad Little Girl of Acoma Transcript
Micah (Knob Twister): 0:01
How ready are you? I'm so ready. Welcome to Tales of Bedlam. I'm your host, knob Twister, okie, dokie, then, glad to see you. We continue today with another tale from Native American folklore A bad little girl in a coma For November. It's not a coma. A-c-o-m-a girl in a coma for november. It's not a coma a c o ma, but it's not a coma I didn't even see that.
Micah (Knob Twister): 0:36
The bad little girl of a coma or a coma. There's a bad little girl in a coma or a coma. There's a bad little girl in a coma. It's of not in or a. She fell on her head. Now she's dead. This is a Native American tale written by Elizabeth Willis DeHuff.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 0:56
It wasn't written by Elizabeth Willis DeHuff. It was translated and transcribed by Elizabeth Willis DeHuff. It was written by a North Native American.
Micah (Knob Twister): 1:06
Scholars and historians believe author Elizabeth Willis de Huff was born around 1886 in Augusta, georgia, to John Turner and Ann Boyd Wilson Willis. Yes, ann Boyd Wilson Willis, that's obnoxious. That's four first names.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 1:26
Those were the plantation owners.
Micah (Knob Twister): 1:29
She became a teacher and followed her husband to Santa Fe, new Mexico, where she quickly became fascinated with Native American folklore. Who wouldn't be? Her husband was a superintendent of the Santa Fe Indian School and when the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Native students were forbidden to learn the art, she began teaching art classes herself Good for her To Indians. While working with the Hopi and Pueblo students. She decided to write down the Native American folk tales. She wrote them down.
Micah (Knob Twister): 2:04
The result was her first book Tay-Tay's Tales that's tacky Published in 1922. The book featured artwork from her students Fred Cabote Cabote, which translates to man behind bush running from snake, a renowned Hopi painter, hopi Hopi painter and Otis Polonema, polonema, polonema, polonema, polonema.
Micah (Knob Twister): 2:38
A painter and artist of Hopi Hopi Hopi Second, mason De Huth of Hoppy Hoppy Hoppy second, mace DeHuff eventually back to Georgia after her husband died in 1945. That's sad. She passed away in 1983, leaving behind the Elizabeth Willis DeHuff collection of American Indian art, a collection with more than 55 Native American artists. That was inspiring and there's a little picture for you, dustin.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 3:09
But we're not going to call them Indians because they're not from India, they're natives.
Micah (Knob Twister): 3:14
This is one of the stories that was included in her book the Tay-Tay, the Tay-Tay Tales. Tay-tay, stop tales, ty Ty.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 3:25
Stop. I don't think that the natives in New Mexico had a Georgia accent, the teacher might have. So, the bad little girl of Acoma. There was a bad little girl in Acoma.
Micah (Knob Twister): 3:38
Once upon a time there lived in a coma A very bad little girl. How could she be bad if she was in a coma? Her mother sent her out one day to mine the turkeys while they grazed. But she played what the turkeys?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 3:56
were grazing. Yeah, doesn't grazing imply grass.
Micah (Knob Twister): 4:02
Turkeys and chickens do eat grass. What they eat? All kinds of vegetation, but they also eat bugs and even small animals like mice. I'm not eating those anymore, they're scavengers. But she played around and did not watch the turkeys at all. Bad little girl. That evening, when she came home, one turkey hen was missing.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 4:24
It was delicious go and find that other turkey, said her mother, and bring her home before a coyote gets her.
Micah (Knob Twister): 4:31
Ooh a wowie coyote.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 4:36
But the bad little girl did not obey her mother. This kid's not going to lose a thumb or anything, is she? Um, she went outside, took off her belt, mm-hmm. Her top black dress, mm-hmm. Her kerchief and her moccasins, and slept all night under the ladder. She got naked and slept under the ladder. No, it was her top black dress.
Micah (Knob Twister): 5:00
She had her undergarments on.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 5:04
And so she got mostly naked and slept under the ladder.
Micah (Knob Twister): 5:07
Well, she had her under dress, I assume, If it was her top black dress then she might have.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 5:12
Why did she sleep under the ladder?
Micah (Knob Twister): 5:15
Oh my gosh To hide from her mother Behind a ladder.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 5:20
Have you ever seen a ladder?
Micah (Knob Twister): 5:22
Yes.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 5:25
They're very sturdy. They're hard to hide behind. They have lots of slats.
Micah (Knob Twister): 5:28
Oh my gosh Dustin. Early the next morning she went out to find the turkey. The turkey hen was keeping an egg warm on her nest In the hole of a big rock. It wasn't lost. Then, when the bad little girl found her, she grabbed her up by the neck and then, with the turkey hen under her arm and the egg in her hand, she started across the prairie singing.
Micah (Knob Twister): 5:53
I'm going east to jump in water, water. What is going?
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 5:58
on what? What?
Micah (Knob Twister): 6:02
No, that's not what turkeys say say no, it's part of the song.
Micah (Knob Twister): 6:06
so I'm going east to jump in water, water water, water.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 6:13
That's two times in a row, two stories in a row. My uh, water water. How you can't even gobble that, just say Toe toe, toe toe, said the turkey.
Micah (Knob Twister): 6:25
Shut up, you ugly old thing.
Micah (Knob Twister): 6:28
Horrible, said the bad little girl, slapping the poor turkey's head at the same time.
Micah (Knob Twister): 6:33
You caused me to get a scolding last night, so I am going to drown you and this egg of yours in the water.
Micah (Knob Twister): 6:42
Wow. Then the little girl sang again and slapped the turkey whenever she cried Toe, toe, toe. An old man with a load of wood on his back passed them.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 6:55
Why are you going into the water? Little girl Asked the old man.
Micah (Knob Twister): 6:59
So that I can be sure to drown this hateful old turkey replied the bad little girl Don't be foolish child said the old man, come go home with me.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 7:11
Whoa stranger danger.
Micah (Knob Twister): 7:13
No, replied the little girl.
Micah (Knob Twister): 7:15
You leave me alone. I'm going into the water. I tell you to drown myself with this old turkey that caused me to get a scolding and make my mother unhappy for scolding me.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 7:30
This kid needs a whooping Straight up. Whooping, so on went the little girl, still singing and slapping the turkey. We should get a shirt slapping the turkey.
Micah (Knob Twister): 7:40
Turkey slapping is not OK, turkey slapping.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 7:44
Depends. Turkey slapping is not okay. Turkey slapping Depends on whose turkey it is. The old man dropped his wood, don't you? The old man dropped his wood and went as fast as he could to go tell the little girl's mother what he had seen and heard. How bizarre is that.
Micah (Knob Twister): 8:00
Why.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 8:00
You're at home washing the dishes and some old guy comes running up. I saw your kid slapping a turkey.
Micah (Knob Twister): 8:08
I think it's more like what she's going to do with the turkey, but yeah, the mother picked up the little girl's clothes.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 8:15
She went naked and hurried after her. But before she reached the water she saw the bad little girl throw the turkey's egg into the water, then the turkey and last of all jump in herself. She was going to be in a coma. The water swallowed the little girl up before the mother could reach her. Oh water god, cried the mother, Give me back my little girl, but the little girl did not come back. How sad.
Micah (Knob Twister): 8:44
The mother threw the girl's dress into the water, hoping to bring her back what? But it turned into a deer and ran away what? She threw the moccasins in and they turned immediately into two bears.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 8:57
Weird.
Micah (Knob Twister): 8:58
Then she threw in the kerchief. It turned into green slime on top of the water. What? Finally, she threw the belt and it changed into a water snake. Nothing could bring the bad little girl back, for she was far too mean to live.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:19
What a horrifying story.
Micah (Knob Twister): 9:24
The water, god had determined that she was far too mean to live.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:30
Well, she threw herself in number one and she wasn't very nice.
Micah (Knob Twister): 9:35
I guess the Water God thought that she had done the world a favor.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:39
Yeah, I'm going to keep her down here, sorry.
Micah (Knob Twister): 9:44
God, but she was doing all that just to spite her mommy.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:49
What the green slime?
Micah (Knob Twister): 9:50
thing, the snot, I know what.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:55
Gross.
Micah (Knob Twister): 9:56
You know, I was wondering about that.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 9:58
They turned into animals, except for the slime.
Micah (Knob Twister): 10:00
I was wondering about that and I really think that if a Native American A Native American one, from what did they say? The Hopi and Pueblo tribes? Maybe when they heard that they understood because that was probably part of their spiritualism. They knew what the green slime was.
Micah (Knob Twister): 10:25
Yeah, they might have been like uh-huh.
Micah (Knob Twister): 10:26
Yeah, Moccasins. Yeah, Two bears duh. Come on, Dustin, what do you think when you throw your moccasins in? You're going to get two Tootsie Pops. Come on.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 10:37
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
Micah (Knob Twister): 10:40
That's beside the point. The point is when you throw moccasins into a magic lake with a water. God, you get two bears, three, two bears, dustin, and if you want a deer, which is much safer than bears, you just gotta throw a dress in All.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 10:59
I wanted to know why was all the pieces of clothing turned into an animal, but the kerchief which turned into slime?
Micah (Knob Twister): 11:04
It was a well-used kerchief. That's disgusting.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 11:09
I don't know. I think this belongs in the book of Strudel Peter.
Micah (Knob Twister): 11:14
I thought it was a great story.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 11:17
To tell your kids at night if you're a bad little girl, you slap a turkey, you go into the water and you die.
Micah (Knob Twister): 11:25
If you have some bad kids' parents at home, I suggest that you spank them now and put them to bed, whoa. And then get yourself a cup of nice tea or hot cocoa, whoa. Put a little whiskey in it.
Micah (Knob Twister): 11:39
We don't advocate drinking and eating kids, sit back and enjoy your evening. Oh, but before you do all this, if you would please text a friend or family member about this awesome podcast tales of bedlam? You can refer them to our website at tales of bedlamcom, or they could just search for us on any podcast player you can text them. Hey, these guys told me to drink and beat my kids I didn't say beat I, I said spank him, struck your child man.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 12:11
You're going down.
Micah (Knob Twister): 12:14
Oh boy, okay, bye-bye, now Good night.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 12:28
You can't tell people to hit their kids. I just did. You shouldn't tell people to hit their kids. I just did. You shouldn't tell people to hit their kids.
Micah (Knob Twister): 12:35
How terrible.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 12:36
At least you didn't say, drink first and then hit them that would have been a little weirder.
Micah (Knob Twister): 12:41
When I was a kid, I got spanked by my grandpa, whoa, and I was being naughty. I did what he told me not to multiple times before that belt came out.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 12:55
Has this turned into a therapy session?
Micah (Knob Twister): 12:57
After I got spanked I felt so horrible that I had disappointed my grandfather that I never disobeyed him for the rest of my life.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 13:07
How does that make you feel?
Micah (Knob Twister): 13:09
Good, I'm glad he spanked me. Then I listened. So you're a masochist. No, no, I don't think a child can be a masochist.
Dustin (Sofa Sitter): 13:21
A child can't like pain. Mmm Whoa, now we've gone down the well.
Micah (Knob Twister): 13:32
there's the rabbit hole right after a story where a kid committed suicide oh, that's just to prove a point you had to bring that up I was letting that one go gosh. Oh, I guess that's enough well slapping her turkey.