- A man, wife and 2 children
- This will stay for the main of my story; the children will be early to mid-teens
- Man goes hunting and paints wife's face and body before hunting
- Rather than hunting, set in modern day and he is leaving for work - possibly a businessman or some other occupation
- Wife fetches water from the lake
- She takes the children to work and heads off to 'work' as well
- She always went to the lake and took off her clothes to 'bathe'
- She would always mention going to work, but had interesting hours that she would go in, telling her husband that is
- She would meet a snake and do this every time her husband went to hunt
- In fact she was cheating, so the snake will be her affair
- Her husband noticed that her paint was smudged and wondered why/how.
- He noticed a sent on her clothes one night? Or something else...
- He followed her to the lake one day with her thinking that he went to hunt
- He followed her to her 'work'
- He caught the snake wrap itself around her naked body
- He catches them in the act
- After seeing this, he jumps the snake, killing it and killing his wife.
- Not sure I want to keep the killing to give suspense and drama/thriller
- He takes his wife's meat and feeds her to the children, unknowingly to them
- I don't think I'll keep cannibalism in the story...a bit much
- He leaves her head alone and it comes rolling to the children, telling them that they ate her (talking head)
- Rather than them eating her and a talking head, her parents are having a discussion in front of the kids, arguing and talking about a divorce or not talking about it
- They try to flee from it and one child draws a line, digging a hole for it to stop rolling to them
- If they talk about it in front of the kids, the kids decide to run away together from what their mother has done or they don't know what she did, they just know that they'll get a divorce
- They save themselves from the head by meeting someone who could help them and had panthers and bears to protect them from all things
- They run away to grandma and grandpa?
- A camp of people were starving and heard that these kids had bountiful food and decided to camp with them/live with them.
- I will take this out of the story...
- Their father came to live with them, but they despised what he did so they had a lion jump him and kill him.
- Rather than killing him, they learn what happens and that they will be living with their father and they are unhappy with it because they didn't to decide who they wanted to be with. Well, maybe one kid will be upset, but the other will be okay.
(Snake in a lake. Flickr.)
Bibliography: Tales of the North American Indians: The Rolling Head by Stith Thompson.
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