It is said that one day in the beginning of time,
when the villages were first built..
a old man came out of the woods,
and he went down to the Clans of the Cherokee..
The old man was sick with a cold and had sores all over his body...
He came to the first woman in charge of the first clan,
and asked "Would you take me in and make me well?"
The woman looked horrified,
and exclaimed "Oh!, you look terrible,
we don't know how to make you well"..
Go Away!!
The man leaves the first village and goes
to another clan of the Cherokee,
possibly the blue clan...
As he approaches the village,
a woman comes out and starts screaming,
"We have children here, go away."
the old man goes to all the villages of the cherokee
and it's always the same,
he is turned away...
Finally the old man comes to the Wolf Clan of the Cherokee..
The old man is very sick and full
of sores all over his body,
he approaches a woman of the Wolf clan
and asks her "Will you take me in and make me well"...
the woman looks at the old man and feels
sorry for him and tells him "
I don't know what to do for you,
but if you come in,
you may lay down on the bed and rest..
The woman tells the old man,
that she will do what she can to help make him better...
After the old man has rested for awhile,
he tells the woman to go into the forest and get
the bark from the cherry tree and bring
it back and make tea from it...
The woman does as the old man asks,
and he is cured of his cold...
The old man tells the woman,
go back into the forest and get some bark from the willow tree,
and make it into a poultice and place it on my sores...
the woman does as the old man asks and his sores heal..
The old man does this time after time,
telling the woman what to get and how to prepare it,
and what it would cure...
After the old man had been completely cured of all his aliments,
he got up out of the bed and said to the woman..
Woman since you have so good to me,
I have taught you all the cures of the forest..
and from this day forward,
you,
the woman of the Wolf Clan will be the Doctors of the villages..
This is how the Cherokee Women learned how
to cure people of all their ailments...
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