Leelinau

Also known as: Neenizu · Role: chief's daughter · First appears: Leelinau

The Leelinau legend opens with the fairies enticing Leelinau, a chief’s daughter, into their sacred grove and carrying her off. It then tells how her mother arranged a marriage with a neighboring forester: at length Leelinau agreed, and a day was fixed for the ceremony. On its evening Leelinau disappeared; a fisherman thought he saw her going off with fairy of Green Pines, one of the tall fairies.

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Life events

• Fairies enticed Leelinau into their sacred grove and carried her off.(Leelinau · 📍 sacred grove)
  • “On one occasion they went so far as to entice away into their sacred grove, and carry off a chief's daughter--a small but beautiful girl”
• Leelinau agreed to the matrimonial proposals, and a day was fixed for the ceremony.(Leelinau)
  • With: a neighboring forester
  • “At length, after a series of conversational interviews on the subject, she announced her willingness to accede to the matrimonial proposals, and the day was fixed for this purpose.”
• Leelinau disappeared and was believed to have gone off with the fairy of Green Pines.(Leelinau · 📍 the lake shore)
  • With: fairy of Green Pines
  • “Night came but Leelina was never more seen, except by a fisherman on the lake shore, who conceived that he had seen her go off with one of the tall fairies known as the fairy of Green Pines, with green plumes nodding o'er his brows;”

Leelinau

• with fairy of Green Pines (The text reports that Leelinau went off with the fairy.) “who conceived that he had seen her go off with one of the tall fairies known as the fairy of Green Pines, with green plumes nodding o'er his brows”

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