Reading Notes: How Bluebird and Coyote Got Their Colors

The coyote is watching and wanting to eat this bird as he bathes for 4 straight days. On the fifth day the birds feathers change to blue, the fox no longer wanted to eat the bird, but wanted to get his fur to be blue as well. Being the dumb and proud of his color, he was distracted and did not pay attention to where he was going. He ran into a stump and was covered in dirt. If he were to just live his normal life and realize that people would love to see a blue fox and not get distracted by it, he might still be blue to this day. In changing the story I could have a redbird jump into fire everyday and change his skin to red like the fire.

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How Bluebird and Coyote Got Their Colors from Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912).