the orphan boy (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend)

Role: boy being brought up by the old woman · First appears: Wa-wa-be-zo-win; or, the Swing on the Pictured Rocks

Life events

• The daughter-in-law returned in human shape and offered to nurse the infant son.(Wa-wa-be-zo-win; or, the Swing on the Pictured Rocks · 📍 lake)
  • With: the daughter-in-law (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) the infant son (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend)
  • “She suckled the babe, and said to the boy--‘Come here with him, whenever he cries, and I will nurse him.’”
• The orphan boy told the son-in-law what he had seen at the lake.(Wa-wa-be-zo-win; or, the Swing on the Pictured Rocks)
  • With: the son-in-law (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend)
  • “The boy carried the child home, and told these things to the father.”
• The son-in-law broke the water-tiger's shining chain and took his wife and child home.(Wa-wa-be-zo-win; or, the Swing on the Pictured Rocks · 📍 lake)
  • With: the son-in-law (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) the daughter-in-law (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) the infant son (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) the water-tiger (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend)
  • “He then took his wife and child home, with the orphan boy.”

Wa-wa-be-zo-win; or, the Swing on the Pictured Rocks

• foster-parent: the old woman (Wa-wa-be-zo-win legend) “and a little orphan boy, whom she was bringing up.”

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