Kootenay Flood Myth

A small gray bird, despite the prohibition of her husband (a chiken hawk), bathed in a certain lake. There she was seized and raped by a giant in the lake. The bird's husband shot the monster, who swallowed up all the water. The woman pulled out the arrow, and the water rushed forth in a torrent. [Kelsen, in Dundes]

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References: Dundes, Alan (ed.) The Flood Myth, University of California Press, Berkeley and London, 1988.