The Girl Who Married the Moon — Arctic & Circumpolar (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to Kodiak Island, off the coast of Alaska, where the Alutiiq built their houses down into the ground and cut a skylight in the roof to let the light in. On a clear night the moon came through that skylight and lay on the floor in a bright square, and the children played in it — and one young woman who lived alone used to stand in the middle of it and say out loud that she was going to take the moon for a husband. She said it every time. Then one night the light went out of the skylight, and there was somebody standing in the doorway.
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