the younger aunt (Osseo legend)

Role: aunt of Osseo's son · First appears: Osseo; or, the Son of the Evening Star · Part 2

Life events

• The charm's dissolution sends Osseo's family down to an island, where they resume their natural shapes as fairies.(Osseo; or, the Son of the Evening Star · Part 2 · 📍 a high, romantic island in a large lake)
  • With: Osseo Oweenee Osseo's son
  • “The boy immediately found himself sinking, but was partly upheld, by something like wings, till he passed through the lower clouds, and he then suddenly dropped upon a high, romantic island in a large lake. He was pleased on looking up, to see all his aunts and uncles following him in the form of birds, and he soon discovered the silver lodge, with his father and mother, descending with its waving barks looking like so many insects' gilded wings. It rested on the highest cliffs of the island, and here they fixed their residence. They all resumed their natural shapes, but were diminished to the size of fairies;”

Osseo; or, the Son of the Evening Star · Part 2

• younger kin: Osseo's son “It was one of his younger aunts.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends. Made with Rho MD.