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A man literally named A-Man-among-Men goes around scaring everybody with his awesome strength and power. HE causes winds and thunder whenever he stomps. His wife gets onto him about bragging. One day his wife is at the well getting water when she encounters another wife. They exchange conversation, and the second wife goes home telling her husband about A-Man-among-Men. The husband wants to see this, so he goes to the well the next day.

A-Man-among-Men's wife and son come to the well, her son saves the man from being pulled into the well by a heavy pitcher that takes ten men to haul.The man insists on going home with them to see A-Man-among-Men. When they get home, he hides in the pantry. The whole time A-Man-among-Men keeps smelling another man in the house.

The next morning the man tries to escape, but A-Man-among-Men chases after him. The man encounters various people along the way who all tell him to just wait for AMAM to catch up with him. Each time the man asks the strangers if they can take AMAM, and each time they tell him to “pass on.”Eventually the man meets a giant who tells him to sit and wait.

When AMAM arrives, he threatens the giant. The two get into a wrestling match. They wrap their legs around each other and leap into the sky. They never came back down. Now, they wrestle forever, taking long breaks. Whenever you hear the sound of Thunder it A-Man-among-Men grappling with the giant.

p1053

A hunter and his son go out hunting, but find nothing but a rat. The boy tosses the rat away. Later, the hunter asks him to get the rat to eat and the boy has to confess that he threw it away. The father knocks the boy out with his axe.

The next day, when the boy regains consciousness, he goes to the chiefs house. The chief had lost his son in a war, so he strikes a deal with the boy. The next day there are to be trials and he wants the boy to claim to be his (the chief's) son.

The trials are that each boy must ride a horse out, then kill it. Eventually it works up to killing some female slaves. Each time the boy does it, basically proving he is capable of killing.

The father/hunter shows up finally and demands the boy back. The chief offers him all sorts of riches, but the hunter refuses. Eventually the chief tells the boy one of 2 things will have to happen as the three of them ride into the desert: either he goes out kills the chief or he kills the father. The story ends there asking “Now if it were you, O white man, among them whom would you kill?” (1076)

(This is very similar to the story in 1001 Nights) p1129