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[Argembarger]

(metaphorical) Chains already, coyote? I have a bad feeling about this...

[Soadreqm]

I think this is perfectly in character for Coyote. He's the Trickster God. He'll lie, cheat and scheme, not even to further some grand goal, but just for giggles. Which isn't to say that he doesn't have some grand goal. Perhaps this whole tooth thing is just to lull Annie into a false sense of insecurity so that she doesn't notice the REAL plot.

Also, he only forbade telling anyone in the forest. If she ever visits the court, she can tell everyone. Oh, and Coyote didn't expressly forbid her from telling, only warned that she would lose her hand. And smugly telling him that might just be worth a limb. And he might be bluffing, anyway.

[Shinziril]

Coyote doesn't lie.

This doesn't really make him any safer to trust, to be honest. 

[Jackrabbit]

Yes, he's perfectly serious about his threat. No lies here!

[RedWarrior0]

Why get a hook hand? Get a Coyote's Tooth hand.

Also, he did not say what would happen when/if her hand comes off, what else it does, or anything like that. For all we know, this could be a test of some kind.

[Flaede]

Why get a hook hand? Get a Coyote's Tooth hand.

Also, he did not say what would happen when/if her hand comes off, what else it does, or anything like that. For all we know, this could be a test of some kind.

Game. It's a game. Coyote's playing. Because Coyote is deadly serious when Coyote is playing.

[Rose]

Oh man, Coyote looks so innocent there....

NOT!

[Puzzlemaker]

Did anyone else crack up laughing at today's comic?  Coyote is so hilarious sometimes.

[scriver]

..."Beyond 'Kno-gak'"?

[Zai]

..."Beyond 'Kno-gak'"?

He was going to say "beyond knowledge" but was interrupted by Annie suddenly hugging his chin.

[Rose]

nah, Kno-gak is totally a word.

[scriver]

..."Beyond 'Kno-gak'"?

He was going to say "beyond knowledge" but was interrupted by Annie suddenly hugging his chin.

I see it now. It's even "Kno~gak", with a tilde, when I look closely.
Bad formatting though, Tom. It could easily have been made clearer.

[ToonyMan]

Hugs hurt people, provide them with caution.

[Argembarger]

So

There's a really cool book I found.

It's called Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America, by Barry Holstun Lopez.

It's a collection of Coyote short stories.

I'm sure there are many others but this one is really good. Especially for Gunnerkrigg fans, haha.

Spoiler: Summary on the inside cover (click to show/hide)

     Coyote is not easy to catch. And yet Barry Holstun Lopez has managed to catch him in these native American stories. Or, as Barre Toelken says in his foreword, "as much of him as anyone has a right to know."
     Coyote. Eternal vagabond. Inveterate prankster. Wise warrior. Blind fool. He is man's oldest reflection of himself. He is that familiar quality in the universe that urges men to be heroes while simultaneously seducing them with an inflated sense of ego.
     Coyote is ancient. The poet Gary Snyder calls his survival incredible. He surfaces in recognizable form as Randall McMurphy in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He appears as the warrior clown in Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai He even appears, hoist by his own petard, in "Road Runner" cartoons.
     A player of jokes. The eternal victim. He is neither good nor evil but the creator of both. His adventure is wildly humorous and to enjoy him is to laugh at mankind.
     Coyote has been hiding in North America. To those who have always suspected he was there but never known his name, Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping With His Daughter is introduction.

[scriver]

Magpies are totally better than doves. Go magpie!