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The Trickster of Legend Has a Brother-In-Law

            Promosutis, the hero of many folktales in the Astrophobic tradition, was often plagued by the appearance of his brother-in-law, Glamogoose.  Some of these tales present Glamogoose as being married to Promosutis’ sister, Erase, while others claim that he was brother to the wife of Promosutis.  However, as Bird Landry of the Department of Linguism at the University of Flapjhack has attempted to prove using parallel soup-and-soup techniques, Promosutis cannot possibly have had a wife, given that he is clearly described as having been an initiate of the Fuzzy-Things-in-the-Meadow Society, which did not allow its members to be married.

            Thus we find Glamogoose once again abandoning Erase in order to hunt for so-called “brain cheese” on the fourth elder warming of Boelaam.  The most famous example of this story is “Promosutis and the Raven’s Droppings.”  In it Erase goes to her brother and claims a wedgeright upon his fists as her sisterly privilege.  Promosutis must go and bring back the wayward husband.  Instead of doing so, however, Promosutis wraps a duck in “rags of gluish construction” and tosses it into the ethereal conveyance tube leading to Boelaam’s fourth elder warming.  Having thereby successfully deceived all into thinking he had undertaken the trip on behalf of his sister, Promosutis swims out to the island of Beclock in the middle of the Lake of Parenthetical Congress to sleep for a hundred years.  This is another reason we know he wasn’t married, for any wife worthy of the name would surely have awakened the legendary trickster to change a lightbulb or join the family for the Feast of Bonkers at least.

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