the child (Onaiazo legend)
Role: child · First appears: Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker
In Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker, the brother of the female guide (Onaiazo legend) struck the child with sickness, and he fell and was carried into a lodge. He asked for a white dog sacrifice; after the feast and sacrifice, he removed his hand from the child, who recovered.
Relationship record
Life events
- The brother struck the child with sickness, and the child fell and was carried into a lodge.(Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker)
- With: the brother of the female guide (Onaiazo legend)
- “‘Do you see,’ said the brother, ‘that group of children playing beside a lodge? Observe that beautiful and active boy,’ said he, at the same time darting something at him, from his hand. The child immediately fell, and was carried into the lodge.”
- The brother demanded a white dog sacrifice, then removed his hand from the sick child and the child recovered.(Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker)
- With: the brother of the female guide (Onaiazo legend)
- “To this request, the companion of O-no-wut-a-qut-o made answer: ‘Send me up the sacrifice of a white dog.’ Immediately a feast was ordered by the parents of the child, the white dog was killed, his carcass was roasted, and all the wise men and medicine men of the village assembled to witness the ceremony.”
Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker
- enemies with the brother of the female guide (Onaiazo legend) “Observe that beautiful and active boy,” said he, at the same time darting something at him, from his hand. The child immediately fell, and was carried into the lodge.”
- benefactor: the brother of the female guide (Onaiazo legend) “When I have struck one with sickness, they direct the people to look to me; and when they send me the offering I ask, I remove my hand from off them, and they are well.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends. Made with Rho MD.