Since beginning my extensive research for folklore and anthropology of Native Americans, I have discovered so many stories about things I never have thought about before. I found one about a Shark King who fell in love with a human woman, married her, and had a son. He went back to the sea and left his wife and son behind. The village people had figured out that there was something off about the son. They had him dropped into water to see if he floated, and sure enough he did, since he is the son of the shark king. The village people tried to kill him because he would eat all the fish before the fishermen could catch them. In the end of the story, the son escapes via a small pond that the Shark King had excavated a small tunnel to the sea in the bottom, and was never seen again.
This is my favorite story so far, although I left out much of the details. There are a lot of really interesting stories that I haven't read all the way through yet, and I'm looking more and more forward to doing so.
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