Reading Diary Week 9: The Swallowing Monster

This story is very interesting and takes several quick turns. A monster who "swallows" things is after a small young girl. After she discovers many dead dear when getting water, the people realize there is a creature after them all. 

A fire poker was told to cry loudly when the monster approached them to scare the monster off; this worked only once before the swallowing monster swallowed the poker itself up. After literally swallowing everything and everyone except for the small girl, she hid under a mans braided hair; this man's name was Spider and he was chopping a tree near his home when the little girl ran to him. 

In the end Spiders wife became jealous of this girl and built a swing for her by the shore. When the young girl swung from the swing for the second time, it snapped and she fell into the water and transformed into a frog...many many many turns in this one. 

Swallowing Monster: Source

These thoughts were recorded after the reading of The Swallowing Monster, an Apache tale by Plin Earle Goddard in 1911.