Western Bluebird from Wikimedia
How Bluebird and Coyote Got Their Colors
- Bird starts out an ugly color
- Found an isolated lake to bath in multiple times a day while singing a magic song
- There's a blue water. It lies there. I went in. I am all blue.
- The fourth day, Bluebird no longer has feathers.
- The fifth day, the feathers regrow blue.
- Coyote has been watching the bluebird.
- wanted to eat the bird but is now mesmerized by its color
- Bird teaches the coyote how to bath in the lake and sing the song
- Coyote is now blue just like the bird
- Became so vain that he got distracted and fell in dirt. Now coyotes are dirt colored.
Bibliography
How Bluebird and Coyote Got Their Colors from Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912)
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