Splinter-Foot-Girl, called also Foot-Stuck-Child, is the heroine of a widely recorded Arapaho narrative. She grows from a splinter or swelling that lodges in the foot of an old man who tends her as she ripens with unnatural speed into a young woman. Coveted by the buffalo, who press their claim upon her, she is helped in flight and at last carried up into the sky beyond their pursuit, her deliverance associated in the telling with the fixing of certain stars. The tale, among the most fully attested of Arapaho stories, was analyzed early as a type of the miraculous-birth and pursuit narratives of the Plains.