The Boy Who Snared the Sun
A tale in Larned's Schoolcraft-derived collection imagines a boy challenging the Sun itself, turning a cosmic body into the object of a dangerous snare.
The story uses the scale difference between a human child and the Sun to make the feat deliberately impossible-looking. The celestial encounter belongs to a wider set of North American story traditions, but this entry does not merge them.
Because the adaptation does not meet modern standards of nation-specific attribution, Loreveil marks the documentation limitation prominently and treats the record as provisional.
Follow the thread
Connected lore
Curated relationships invite comparison without implying that distinct traditions are the same.
Sources & citations
Larned, W. T. American Indian Fairy Tales. Adapted principally from Henry R. Schoolcraft's Algic Researches. P. F. Volland Company, 1921.
W. T. Larned, adapting material collected by Henry R. Schoolcraft · P. F. Volland Company; digital edition by Project Gutenberg · 1921
public domain