the infant son (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend)

Role: child · First appears: Wa-wa-be-zo-win; or, the Swing on the Pictured Rocks

In “Wa-wa-be-zo-win; or, the Swing on the Pictured Rocks,” the infant son is left in the care of the orphan boy (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend), and his mother, the daughter-in-law (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend), returns in human shape and nurses him. When he cries, she tells the boy to bring him to the lake so she can nurse him; later, the son-in-law (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) breaks the water-tiger’s shining chain and takes his wife and child home.

Relationship record

The daughter-in-law returned in human shape and offered to nurse the infant son.(Wa-wa-be-zo-win; or, the Swing on the Pictured Rocks · 📍 lake)
- With: the daughter-in-law (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) the orphan boy (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend)
- “She suckled the babe, and said to the boy--‘Come here with him, whenever he cries, and I will nurse him.’”
The son-in-law broke the water-tiger's shining chain and took his wife and child home.(Wa-wa-be-zo-win; or, the Swing on the Pictured Rocks · 📍 lake)
- With: the son-in-law (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) the daughter-in-law (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) the orphan boy (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) the water-tiger (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend)
- “He then took his wife and child home, with the orphan boy.”

parent: the daughter-in-law (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) “One day, she asked her to leave her infant son to the care of the orphan boy, and come out and swing with her.”
parent: the son-in-law (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) “When the child again cried, the father went also with the boy to the lake shore, and hid himself in a clump of trees.”

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