Odshedoph Waucheentongah

Also known as: the Child of Strong Desires · Role: father · First appears: Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1

In Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1, Odshedoph Waucheentongah, also called the Child of Strong Desires, separated from other families and traveled with his wife, the wife of Odshedoph Waucheentongah, and their son, the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah, to a forest encampment. Early in the evening, when his son refused to fetch water, he reproached him: “if you are afraid to go to the river, you will never kill the Red Head.”

In Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 2, his son returned to his parents with a trophy. Odshedoph and his wife recognized him only after seeing it; when he recounted his adventures, they believed him mad.

Relationship record

Life events

• Odshedoph Waucheentongah separated from the other families and traveled with his wife and son to a forest encampment.(Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1)
  • With: the wife of Odshedoph Waucheentongah the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah
  • “Among the families who thus separated themselves, on a certain occasion, there was a man called Odshedoph Waucheentongah, or the Child of Strong Desires, who had a wife and one son. After a day's travel he reached an ample wood with his family, which was thought to be a suitable place to encamp.”
• The son refused his father's request to fetch water, and his father reproached him for being afraid.(Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1)
  • With: the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah
  • “He refused to go. ‘Ah, my son,’ said the father, at last, ‘if you are afraid to go to the river, you will never kill the Red Head.’”
• The adventurer returned to his parents, who recognized him after seeing his trophy.(Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 2 · 📍 the village)
  • With: the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah the wife of Odshedoph Waucheentongah
  • “It was still longer before they recognized him for their son; when he recounted his adventures they believed him mad.”

Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1

• married with the wife of Odshedoph Waucheentongah “there was a man called Odshedoph Waucheentongah, or the Child of Strong Desires, who had a wife and one son.”
• child: the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah “He urged him to go, saying that his mother, as well as himself, was tired, and the distance to the water was very short.”

Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 2

• child: the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah “On entering the village he found his parents had returned from the place of their spring encampment, and were in great sorrow for their son, whom they supposed to be lost.”

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