the little dog (Mukakee Mindemoea legend)

Role: dog · First appears: Mukakee Mindemoea; or, the Toad-Woman

Life events

• Mukakee Mindemoea stole the son from his cradle despite the little dog's efforts to stop her.(Mukakee Mindemoea; or, the Toad-Woman)
  • With: the son (Mukakee Mindemoea legend) Mukakee Mindemoea
  • “But on looking round, she saw pieces of the wampum of her child's cradle bit off by the dog, who strove to retain the child and prevent his being carried off by an old woman called Mukakee Mindemoea, or the Toad-Woman.”
• The little dog found the young woman and recognized the food she had given him as his mother.(Mukakee Mindemoea; or, the Toad-Woman · 📍 the lodge)
  • With: the young woman (Mukakee Mindemoea legend)
  • “The dog soon scented it and came into the lodge; she placed it before him. ‘See, my child,’ said she, addressing him, ‘the food you used to have from me, your mother.’”
• The little dog told the son that Mukakee Mindemoea had stolen him and was not his real mother.(Mukakee Mindemoea; or, the Toad-Woman)
  • With: the son (Mukakee Mindemoea legend) Mukakee Mindemoea
  • “The dog went and told his young master that he had found his real mother; and informed him that the old woman, whom he called his mother, was not his mother, that she had stolen him when an infant in his cradle, and that he had himself followed her in hopes of getting him back.”
• The son and the little dog killed Mukakee Mindemoea's children and fled with the young woman.(Mukakee Mindemoea; or, the Toad-Woman)
  • With: the son (Mukakee Mindemoea legend) Mukakee Mindemoea
  • “As soon as she was gone, the young man and his dog killed the Toad-Woman's children, and staked them on each side of the door, with a piece of fat in their mouths, and then went to his real mother and hastened her departure with them.”
• The little dog tore Mukakee Mindemoea to pieces, allowing the fugitives to escape.(Mukakee Mindemoea; or, the Toad-Woman)
  • With: Mukakee Mindemoea
  • “So the dog, turning round, seized her and tore her to pieces, and they escaped.”

Mukakee Mindemoea; or, the Toad-Woman

• siblings with the son (Mukakee Mindemoea legend) “Next day she swung her baby to sleep in its tikenágun, or cradle, and then said to her dog: ‘Take care of your brother whilst I am gone, and when he cries, halloo for me.’”

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