Pah-hah-undootah

Also known as: Red Head / the Red Head · Role: sorcerer · First appears: Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1

In Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1, the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah was instructed to pose as a woman, marry Pah-hah-undootah, and kill him. In Part 2, the disguised son went through a mock marriage with Pah-hah-undootah, then pretended offence when Pah-hah-undootah’s mother was beaten and refused his entreaties to stay. At the island’s beach, while Pah-hah-undootah slept, the son cut off his head with a blade of grass.

Relationship record

Life events

• Wok-on-kahtohn-zooeyah-pee-kah-haitchee instructed the son to pose as a woman, marry Pah-hah-undootah, and kill him.(Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 1 · 📍 the island)
  • With: Wok-on-kahtohn-zooeyah-pee-kah-haitchee the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah
  • “She said that as soon as the Red Head heard of this, he would come for her in his own canoe, in which she must embark. On reaching the island he must consent to be his wife, and in the evening induce him to take a walk out of the village, when he was to take the first opportunity to cut off his head with the blade of grass.”
• Disguised as a woman, the adventurer went through a mock marriage with Pah-hah-undootah.(Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 2 · 📍 the island)
  • With: the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah
  • “The marriage immediately took place, and the bride made presents of various valuables which had been furnished by the old witch.”
• Pretending offence at the beating of the Red Head's mother, the mock bride said he would go home, and rejected all of Pah-hah-undootah's entreaties to stay.(Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 2 · 📍 the island)
  • With: the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah
  • “he could not think of remaining with him as his wife, but should forthwith return to his village and friends.”
• The adventurer killed Pah-hah-undootah by cutting off his head.(Pah-hah-undootah, the Red Head · Part 2 · 📍 the beach of the island)
  • With: the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah
  • “Red Head fell into a sound sleep. Our aspirant for the glory of a brave man then drew his blade of grass, and drawing it once across the neck of the Red Head completely severed the head from the body.”

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

• enemies with the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah (The witch instructs the boy to kill the Red Head.) “On reaching the island he must consent to be his wife, and in the evening induce him to take a walk out of the village, when he was to take the first opportunity to cut off his head with the blade of grass.”

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

• enemies with the son of Odshedoph Waucheentongah “Our aspirant for the glory of a brave man then drew his blade of grass, and drawing it once across the neck of the Red Head completely severed the head from the body.”
• parent: the mother of the Red Head “When the facts were reported to the Red Head, he ordered his canoe to be put in the water by his chosen men, and crossed over to see this wonderful girl.”
• parent: the father of the Red Head “She drew her husband aside and disclosed to him her suspicions: ‘This can be no female,’ said she; ‘the figure and manners, the countenance, and more especially the expression of the eyes, are, beyond a doubt, those of a man.’”

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