At last the muskrat was sent down . . . and when they pulled him up on the raft and looked at his paws, they found a little mud in them. When Old Man had dried this mud, he scattered it over the water and land was formed. Read the excerpt from "The Blackfeet Creation." How do readers know that this excerpt is from a myth? The excerpt describes an animal called a muskrat. The excerpt describes Old Man drying the mud. The excerpt describes Old Man scattering mud over water. The excerpt describes how muskrat helped create land.