An arctic tale for Winter Solstice.
Among the Inuit peoples there are tales of the goose wife who is wed to either a man, raven or owl.
In the story featuring a man, he steals the goose’s feathered skin while she is bathing in human form with her fellow geese. He takes her as his wife and she lives with him but she is unhappy. The goose wife finds human food not to her taste and adds grass to it for flavour, which does not please her husband and mother-in-law. She secretly collects enough shed feathers from the shores to enable her to transform back to her goose form. With her new wings she takes flight and returns back to her goose people.
Source: based on a story told by Sakkariasi Tukkiapik
https://www.inuitartzone.com/pages/oral-traditions-and-myths
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