the handsome wife (Addik Kum Maig legend)

Role: wife · First appears: Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish

The handsome wife was married to the famous hunter (Addik Kum Maig legend), and they had two sons, the elder son (Addik Kum Maig legend) and the younger son (Addik Kum Maig legend). At length, the sons told their father of her secret visits, revealing her infidelity. Satisfied, he killed her with his war-club and buried her beneath the ashes of his fire.

After her death, her spirit haunted and terrified her grown sons. While crossing the rapids, she touched the injured head of the crane (Addik Kum Maig legend), who threw her into the water. He changed her into Addik Kum Maig, and her brains became a new species of fish.

Relationship record

Life events

• The sons told their father about their mother's secret visits, revealing her infidelity.(Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish)
  • With: the elder son (Addik Kum Maig legend) the younger son (Addik Kum Maig legend) the famous hunter (Addik Kum Maig legend)
  • “They did so. The result was such as might have been anticipated. The father, being satisfied of the infidelity of his wife,”
• The famous hunter killed his wife and buried her under the ashes of his fire.(Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish)
  • With: the famous hunter (Addik Kum Maig legend)
  • “with a single blow of his war-club dispatched her. He then buried her under the ashes of his fire,”
• The woman's spirit haunted and terrified her sons after her death.(Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish)
  • With: the elder son (Addik Kum Maig legend) the younger son (Addik Kum Maig legend)
  • “But the spirit of the woman haunted the children, who were now grown up to the estate of young men.”
• The crane threw the woman's skull into the rapids after she touched his injured head.(Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish)
  • With: the crane (Addik Kum Maig legend)
  • “Instantly the crane threw her into the rapids.”
• The crane changed the woman into Addik Kum Maig, whose brains became a new species of fish.(Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish)
  • With: the crane (Addik Kum Maig legend)
  • “you shall now be changed into something for the benefit of your people, and it shall be called Addik Kum Maig.”

Addik Kum Maig; or, the Origin of the White Fish

• married with the famous hunter (Addik Kum Maig legend) “He had a handsome wife and two sons, who were left in the lodge every day, while he went out in quest of the animals, upon whose flesh they subsisted.”
• enemies with the elder son (Addik Kum Maig legend) “But the spirit of the woman haunted the children, who were now grown up to the estate of young men.”
• enemies with the younger son (Addik Kum Maig legend) “But the spirit of the woman haunted the children, who were now grown up to the estate of young men.”
• enemies with the famous hunter (Addik Kum Maig legend) “The father, being satisfied of the infidelity of his wife, watched a suitable occasion, when she was separated from the children, that they might not have their feelings excited, and with a single blow of his war-club dispatched her.”

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