Oweenee

Role: wife · First appears: Osseo; or, the Son of the Evening Star · Part 1

As the youngest of ten daughters, Oweenee refused marriage proposals while her elder sisters married, until she married Osseo, an old, poor man who could scarcely walk. She was transformed into a bent, decrepit old woman, and at the Evening Star the old man explained that a wicked spirit had transformed both her and Osseo.

After the transformations were reversed, Oweenee’s youth and beauty returned. She lived with Osseo in his father’s lodge and, in due time, gave birth to their son. When the charm was dissolved, she descended with her family to an island, where they all resumed their natural shapes as fairies.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Indian’s youngest daughter, Oweenee, married Osseo, an old and poor man.(Osseo; or, the Son of the Evening Star · Part 1)
  • With: the father of Oweenee
  • “At last she married an old man called OSSEO, who was scarcely able to walk, and was too poor to have things like others.”
• Oweenee was transformed into an old, decrepit woman.(Osseo; or, the Son of the Evening Star · Part 1)
  • “But on turning round to look for his wife, behold, she had been changed into an old, decrepit woman, who was bent almost double, and walked with a cane.”
• Osseo and Oweenee reach the Evening Star after their transformations are reversed.(Osseo; or, the Son of the Evening Star · Part 2 · 📍 the Evening Star)
  • With: Osseo
  • “In a moment the youth and beauty of his wife returned; her dingy garments assumed the shining appearance of green silk, and her cane was changed into a silver feather. The lodge again shook and trembled, for they were now passing through the uppermost clouds, and they immediately after found themselves in the Evening Star, the residence of Osseo's father.”
• The old man explains that the wicked spirit transformed Osseo and Oweenee into decrepit old persons.(Osseo; or, the Son of the Evening Star · Part 2 · 📍 the Evening Star)
  • With: Osseo the father of Osseo
  • “He failed in several attempts to destroy your brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, but succeeded at last in transforming yourself and your wife into decrepit old persons.”
• Oweenee gives birth to Osseo's son.(Osseo; or, the Son of the Evening Star · Part 2 · 📍 the Evening Star)
  • With: Osseo
  • “Osseo lived happy and contented in the parental lodge, and in due time his wife presented him with a son, who grew up rapidly, and was the image of his father.”
• 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 Osseo's son the younger aunt (Osseo legend)
  • “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 1

• married with Osseo “At last she married an old man called OSSEO, who was scarcely able to walk, and was too poor to have things like others.”
• parent: the father of Oweenee “There once lived an Indian in the north, who had ten daughters, all of whom grew up to womanhood.”
• siblings with one of the elder sisters (Osseo legend) “Her elder sisters were all solicited in marriage from their parents, and one after another, went off to dwell in the lodges of their husbands, or mothers-in-law, but she would listen to no proposals of the kind.”

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

• married with Osseo “In a moment the youth and beauty of his wife returned”
• siblings with the wife's sister (Osseo legend) “on account of the contempt of your wife's sister, who laughed at her ill fortune”
• child: Osseo's son “his wife presented him with a son”

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