Choctaw Tales by Tom Mould

Author:Tom Mould
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2004-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

• A BIG HOG

Gladys Willis 1996

Even what they call na losa chitto—it’s “a big black thing” in English. “Na losa chitto,” that’s “big black thing.” It can turn to a hog or any kind of animal. But they said you don’t fool with that because they have some kind of power, that they would spread that power and it smells bad and they can kill. When you hear something like that, you just don’t go near it.

Used to, in the hot weather, we used to sleep out on the porch, when we was living over there. We used to sleep on the porch.

But one night, I don’t know, we all wasn’t asleep yet, we was just laying there. And my husband called—Rae’s Grandpa [laughter]—said he heard something coming. And he said, “Lay very still and don’t say anything.”

I was just wondering what it was. And pretty soon, there was something like if you had heard a hog, a big hog, trying to breathe. And it came closer; and I would have said something. “It’s a hog,” I would say. [laughter] But he jerked me.

I was real still. And it came right by the porch. It came back that way and come past through here. And we could hear when it went up this way, and we could still hear him. And that’s where he passed.

He said, “I told y’all not to talk.”

And everybody said, “We didn’t talk.”

And, “Uh-huh. Somebody liked to say something.”

That’s what it was.

I said, “It’s a hog.” [laughter] Uh-huh.

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