The story that inspired the name of this refreshing herbal tea blend.
Brew for the Bear Child
Comfort & Refresh
For those moments when you need to have a break for comfort and to find warmth and refreshment before returning to your day. Ingredients: Cacao nibs, lemongrass, ginger, curcuma, cinnamon sticks, liquorice root, spearmint, cocoa extract, chilli.
The Tale of this Tea: The Bear’s Son
A Story from Latin America A child is born, a boy, who is half human and half bear. The boy is very strong but being raised for most of his life in a cave does not understand the ways of humans. He wants to go into the world and see what men are like, his mother warns him to be careful.
The Bear Child meets other animals along the way, like an ox pulling a cart, a horse that is used for riding, and a dog who protects it’s master; the Bear Child cannot understand why they would work for man. The Bear Child wishes to kill a man so that he can set the animals free, but when he meets a man the man tricks him and traps the Bear Child’s hands in a split log. Bear Child ends up working for humans but they take advantage of him and treat him poorly. The humans are scared of his strength and anger so they send him to catch a tigress that lives nearby and terrifies the local people, thinking this might get rid of him. But he captures the tigress. `
Then they send the Bear Child out to banish a ghost that haunts a farmhouse, thinking this will frighten him to death. But the Bear Child has no fear of the ghost and helps the ghost instead, who only wanted to be blessed so he could move on to the next world.
The Bear Child then leaves the world of men, and no one knows where he has gone.
A version of this story can be found in:
Latin American Folktales, edited by John Bierhorst