the uncle (Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun legend)

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

In “Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun; or, the Lone Lightning,” the uncle treated the little orphan boy (Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun legend) badly, making him do hard things and giving him little to eat. At last, ashamed of his treatment, the uncle resolved to fatten the boy, intending instead to kill him by overfeeding; he told his wife to give the boy plenty of bear’s meat and the fat.

Relationship record

Life events

• The uncle resolved to fatten the boy, intending to kill him by overfeeding.(Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun; or, the Lone Lightning)
  • With: the little orphan boy (Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun legend)
  • “At last the uncle felt ashamed of this treatment, and determined to make amends for it, by fattening him up, but his real object was, to kill him by over-feeding.”

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

• younger kin: the little orphan boy (Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun legend) “A little orphan boy who had no one to care for him, was once living with his uncle, who treated him very badly, making him do hard things and giving him very little to eat; so that the boy pined away, he never grew much, and became, through hard usage, very thin and light.”
• enemies with the little orphan boy (Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun legend) “At last the uncle felt ashamed of this treatment, and determined to make amends for it, by fattening him up, but his real object was, to kill him by over-feeding.”
• married with the uncle's wife (Nezhik-e-wa-wa-sun legend) “He told his wife to give the boy plenty of bear's meat, and let him have the fat, which is thought to be the best part.”

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