Origin of the Pleiades - A young man hears voices singing by a lake., and they are coming from the sky. He went down to the beach and saw 7 maidens dancing in the starlight. When he slipped on a pebble, the maidens sprang into a basket and vanished in the sky. He went back to his lodge and heard distant voices, and snuck to the beach again. He saw the basket descend and the maidens again danced and sang together, one more beautiful than the others. The man made a noise and again they vanished. They came every night, and one night he rushed them and seized the most beautiful sister. The others vanished. The maiden told him they are seven sisters that live in the sky and they come down to dance in the starlight, and that she can't marry him until he comes to live with her in the sky. So he did, and in the sky you can clearly see the 6 sisters, with one fainter in the back with her husband.
I'm not sure how I would use this story, but I love astronomy and the Pleiades are beautiful.
Myths and Legends of British North America by Katharine Berry Judson.
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