Reading Notes: Great Plains, Reading A

The Forked Roads by Katharine Berry Judson (1913).

• A man died in a village and was buried. 
• How did he die? 
• His ghost had to walk a dark trail for four nights to get to the Milky Way, where there was a lot of light.
• This is why people keep their funerals lighted for four nights in order to help the spirit find his way. 
• The ghost finally came to a point where there was a fork. 
• More details! 
• One side led to the land of good ghosts, and the other had wailing ghosts all along the trail. 
• Why were there two roads and how did they end up there? 
• Those who commit suicides are forced to hover the graves. 
• Ghosts whistle around the spirit who murdered them. They are forced to suffer their whole lives, even their after lives. 

(Ghosts: Pixabay)