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Main > United States folktales > Fairy tale "Moodua Creek"
Moodua Creek
The cabin was burned, the bodies flung into the stream, and the stain of blood was seen for many a year in Murderer's Creek.
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There was once a king who was very powerful. He had great influence over the wild beasts and animals. Now the tortoise was looked upon as the wisest of all beasts and men. This king had a son named Ekpenyon, to whom he gave fifty young girls as wives, but the prince did not like any of them. The king was very angry at this, and made a law that if any man had a daughter who was finer than the prince's wives, and who found favour in his son's eyes, the girl herself and her father and mother should be killed.
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