This is the story of two tricksters. Raven tries to trick Coyote into thinking that he can fly and in the process poor Coyote falls from the sky so quickly that his tail catches fire and he strikes the ground in a puff of dust. When the dust clears, Coyote no longer stands on two legs, but four. His red skin is now covered in brown-gray dust, his nose is long with holes where Raven held him, and his tail has a black singe mark at the end. Raven laughs, thinking that he has tricked Coyote, but in fact, Coyote has tricked Raven. Coyote wanted to change his appearance so that he could fool the creatures of the desert that have come to know him in his old form, so he tricked Raven into transforming him!