3.07 Free Choice Blog

I read about the Salem Witch Trials and I enjoyed it. It shows how people thought back then and how they reacted to certain things, such as witch craft. As a style of notes I would use an outline because I could state the facts of what happened then below that I could explain why and how it happened. This started from 1692 and ended in 1693 when people started accusing others of acting like witches. People eventually started believing the accusations and blaming certain people of being a witch. A council was made and those who were accused would have to go through the council and admit of being guilty and get all their land taken away from them, or they would deny it and get tortured until they admitted they were a witch. Those would admitted they were witches from the beginning would be placed in jail and those who didn't would either die from the torture or not be able to handle the torture and end up admitting they're witches and get sent to jail in pain.

2.07 free choice blog

I chose to read the story "Coyote and Buffalo". This story is a creation myth that was written by the Aknogan tribe. In the story there's a Coyote that lives on one side of the land and a Buffalo that lives on the other. The Buffalo got killed and his bones were left on the floor and Coyote found them and started making fun of the Buffalo. Out of no where the Buffalo came back to life and started chasing the Coyote to kill him but Coyote stopped him from killing him by convincing the Buffalo that he would make him new nicer horns to get back at the the Buffalo Bull for killing him. As a result the Buffalo got his new horns and killed Buffalo Bull. The Buffalo gave Coyote a cow in return that would supply him with meat forever just by cutting off a piece of the cow and burning the cut to heal it. Buffalo told him to never kill the cow and Coyote swore he wouldn't. Eventually Coyote got tired of the cow and killed it thinking Buffalo would never find out he killed him. But Buffalo found out and killed the Coyote for deceiving him. I thought this was a very interesting story, it's non-realistic and has magical creations and i'm into that. If I were to create notes on this I would use lists because everything happens in chronological order so it would be easier to just list the events in order.