The Girl and the Skull

Start your acquaintance with the folk culture of enigmatic northern people with “Chukchee Mythology”! We present you the corpus of legends, collected by Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz, a writer and distinguished figure in anthropology, especially known for his studies of the Chukchi people in Siberia. 
 “The Girl and the Skull” is a tale about one young woman, who is unmarried and lives with the parents. Once, walking near the house, she finds a bare skull lying in the wilderness. She takes it and carries by stealth into her sleeping-room, where she conceals it. Since that day she sets the skull near the rear wall and laughs at it. Her mother surprised by the daughter’s behavior, and one day she accidentally discovers the skull…
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