the medicine-man (Myth 67)

Role: medicine-man · First appears: Myth 67 · Nûñ'yunu'wi, the Stone Man

In Myth 67, the medicine-man identified Nûñ'yunu'wi as a wicked cannibal monster called “Dressed in Stone.” He ordered seven women to stand along the path to stop him, then drove seven sourwood stakes through his body and pinned him to the ground. When night came, the people piled logs over Nûñ'yunu'wi and set them alight.

When daylight came, the medicine-man told the people to rake away the ashes; where Nûñ'yunu'wi had lain, they found red paint and a magic stone. The medicine-man kept the stone and painted the people, granting each the gift they prayed for.

Relationship record

Life events

• The hunter reported the old man, and the medicine-man identified him as Nûñ'yunu'wi, a cannibal monster.(Myth 67 · Nûñ'yunu'wi, the Stone Man)
  • With: the hunter Nûñ'yunu'wi
  • “When he got there and told his story the medicine-man said the old man was a wicked cannibal monster called Nûñ'yunu'wi, ‘Dressed in Stone,’”
• The medicine-man ordered seven women to stand along the path to stop Nûñ'yunu'wi.(Myth 67 · Nûñ'yunu'wi, the Stone Man)
  • “By the order of the medicine-man they stripped themselves and stood along the path where the old man would come.”
• The medicine-man pinned Nûñ'yunu'wi to the ground with stakes, and the people burned him beneath logs.(Myth 67 · Nûñ'yunu'wi, the Stone Man)
  • With: Nûñ'yunu'wi
  • “Then the medicine-man drove seven sourwood stakes through his body and pinned him to the ground, and when night came they piled great logs over him and set fire to them”
• After the fire, Nûñ'yunu'wi's body was gone, leaving red paint and a magic stone.(Myth 67 · Nûñ'yunu'wi, the Stone Man)
  • With: Nûñ'yunu'wi
  • “Then the medicine-man told them to rake off the ashes, and where the body had lain they found only a large lump of red wâ'di paint and a magic u'lûñsû'ti stone.”
• The medicine-man kept the magic stone and painted the people, granting each the gift they prayed for.(Myth 67 · Nûñ'yunu'wi, the Stone Man)
  • “He kept the stone for himself, and calling the people around him he painted them, on face and breast, with the red wâ'di, and whatever each person prayed for while the painting was being done--whether for hunting success, for working skill, or for a long life--that gift was his.”

Myth 67 · Nûñ'yunu'wi, the Stone Man

• enemies with Nûñ'yunu'wi “Then the medicine-man drove seven sourwood stakes through his body and pinned him to the ground, and when night came they piled great logs over him and set fire to them, and all the people gathered around to see.”

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Extracted from the original text of Myths of the Cherokee. Made with Rho MD.