Reading Notes: The Bullfrog Lover

A man dated a girl who liked him but her mom did not so he wasn't allowed near her house. He made a trumpet out of a gourd and hid down by the water and waited until the woman came down too. When she came down, the man played the trumpet and it played a song that resembled a bullfrog. The song sounded like:

Yañdaska'gä hûñyahu'skä,
Yañdaska'gä hûñyahu'skä,
The faultfinder will die,
The faultfinder will die.

The woman was so scared of the sound that she dropped the dipper she was using and ran back into the house to tell everyone. They all agreed they would stop interfering with the relationship, so she gave them consent to have a relationship. 

There is another story of a girl who heard a voice singing every time she went down to the water. It sounded like: 

Kûnu'nü tû'tsahyesï', Kûnu'nü tû'tsahyesï',
A bullfrog will marry you,
A bullfrog will marry you.

She wondered what it was until one day she came down and saw a bullfrog sitting on a stone and he asked her to marry him. She said yes and took him back to the house. The girl's family hated him and at last persuaded her to send him away. The next time she went down the water she heard: 

Ste'tsï tûya'husï, Ste'tsï tûya'husï,
Your daughter will die,
Your daughter will die.

So she died. Some people say it was a tadpole who took on human shape. He hid his identity from everybody. Soon, his wife exposed him and he left the house forever. 

The Bullfrog Lover by James Mooney

Bullfrog. Source: Pxhere