the person from the upper sky (Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun legend)

Role: spirit · First appears: Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun; or, the Lone Lightning

Life events

• The person from the upper sky gave the boy twelve arrows and sent him to fight the manitoes.(Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun; or, the Lone Lightning · 📍 the upper sky)
  • With: the little orphan boy (Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun legend)
  • “Here twelve arrows were put into his hands, and he was told that there were a great many manitoes in the northern sky, against whom he must go to war, and try to waylay and shoot them.”

Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun; or, the Lone Lightning

• recipient: the little orphan boy (Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun legend) “Here twelve arrows were put into his hands, and he was told that there were a great many manitoes in the northern sky, against whom he must go to war, and try to waylay and shoot them.”

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