I was on the Baysville walkabout - Street-fair and rummage sale.
Soooo much to see and vendors were setting up more and more....
All of a sudden I heard a voice close to me. A none human voice!!!! ( No I am NOT an escapee from the local mental health facility- - - I am a shaman and regularly hear none humans talking - to me and among themselves.....)
"Here I am!!!" the voice said, coming out of a bottomless bin of all sorts of clothing and fabric...
So I dug down - and grabbed hold of a large piece of ?????
cow hide!!???????!!??
"I want to be a Medicine Pouch!!" It said
"YOU" I 'answered' !?? You are not Wild Animal!
You are - - just a cow!!!"
Sooooo??? What's wrong with that? You do not like cow???
You eat cow! I KNOW!
I lifted the hide up to check the condition. looked good! nice and soft and clean.
"How much?" I asked. "$ 20.00 was the answer.
"Or - I trade you for a $ 20.00 pair of earrings, Mi-Shell....!!
"Deal!" I put the talking hide onto my pile of goodies and kept looking.....
The hide had to wait her turn - until a rainy October afternoon until I got around to making something out of it. And then the problem was, she did not want me to cut her into smaller pieces of waist anything of her at all... Just to cut and shape the handle was a loooooong negotiation.....
Cows seem to have their own mind about things and are not taking NO for an answer.
Now however I am done.
I fulfilled my bargain and put 14 hours of labour into it!
I smudged it on October Full Moon in honor of the Goddess!
Now the pouch can talk to you!
Have fun!
Mi-Shell