Reading Notes: The Rolling Head, Part A

• The use of the snake being the woman's undoing in very similar to the Hebrew creation story of Eve and the serpent
• Father doesn't seem to feel guilty, only the children "regretted what he had done to them". 
• As in they are not sad that he killed their mother. They are sad he made them eat her
• Exploring the relationship between the father and children more
• Maybe they don't mourn their mother?
• only felt bad due to the rolling head
• If there wasn't a rolling head, would they care if their father had killed her?

Photo of woman at a lake. Source: pxhere

The Rolling Head: Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929).